cant create windows vista images or disks larger than 4gb

cant create windows vista images or disks larger than 4gb

[Eduardo Martini]

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


Thanks a Lot!!!
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Eduardo Martini

Re: cant create windows vista images or disks larger than 4gb

[Avi Kivity]

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).

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Re: cant create windows vista images or disks larger than 4gb

[Eduardo Martini]

I could, but actually wasn't able to find a good how to (newby here).
I just found instructions to build up a ubuntu disk with build-ubuntu-
something command.



On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>



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Eduardo Martini