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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] block/vpc: Fix conversion from size to disk geometry
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 11:46:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BE92777.5040008@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1273520786-10385-1-git-send-email-weil@mail.berlios.de>

Am 10.05.2010 21:46, schrieb Stefan Weil:
> The VHD algorithm calculates a disk geometry
> which is usually smaller than the requested size.
> 
> QEMU tried to round up but failed for certain sizes:
> 
> qemu-img create -f vpc disk.vpc 9437184
> would create an image with 9435136 bytes
> (which is too small for qemu-img convert).
> 
> Instead of hacking the geometry algorithm, the patch
> increases the number of sectors until we get enough
> sectors.
> 
> Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>

Thanks, applied to the block branch.

Kevin

      reply	other threads:[~2010-05-11  9:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-10 19:46 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block/vpc: Fix conversion from size to disk geometry Stefan Weil
2010-05-11  9:46 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]

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