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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Subject: Re: cant create windows vista images or disks larger than 4gb
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:11:45 +0300
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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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