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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Eduardo Martini <emartini1984@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cant create windows vista images or disks larger than 4gb
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:11:45 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <486F56F1.1010800@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b6ae8d9e0806271802w2b9eabb1l2ac9629dccc5191d@mail.gmail.com>

Eduardo Martini wrote:
> Hello !
>
> I'm not able to either create a disk thru virt-manager or a file
> larger than 4gb ! any help with that?
>
>
> running on a AMD turion64 X2 mobile tecnology
> 2gb ram
> 1gb swap
> 160gb Hd  (partitioned in 4 partitions , a windows one. 50gb, a data
> one, 60gb, a ubuntu hardy one ,12gb, a swap ,1,gb, and some free space
> intended for others distributions!)
> ubuntu hardy heron 64
>  x86_64
> 2.6.24-19-generic
>
>   

What error is reported?

Can you try with bare kvm (no virt-manager)?  I have Vista running on 
20GB virtual disks (indeed, I don't think it will install on 4GB disks).

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-05 11:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-28  1:02 cant create windows vista images or disks larger than 4gb Eduardo Martini
2008-07-05 11:11 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-07-08 13:25   ` Eduardo Martini

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