From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "J.N. Herder" <jnherder@cs.vu.nl>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Possible bug?
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 18:58:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200508011858.46562.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42EE5B76.5000702@cs.vu.nl>
On Monday 01 August 2005 18:27, J.N. Herder wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm having some troubles with QEMU's hard disk images and may have bumped
> into a bug. I'm trying to import data into my emulated MINIX, but somehow
> it is truncated.
>
> I successfully created a qemu-img called hda.img of 512 MB and installed
> the latest version from MINIX on it. Trying to import files by using the
> file as hdb image and reading from /dev/hdb in the emulated MINIX works
> perfectly fine for small files. For an import file above 1.5 MB the
> following weirdiness happens:
The size of the image will be truncated to a whole number of cylinders. You
should add padding so the image is a multiple of the cylinder size (depends
on drive geometry, but usually 16*63*512 bytes)
Paul
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2005-08-01 17:27 [Qemu-devel] Possible bug? J.N. Herder
2005-08-01 17:58 ` Paul Brook [this message]
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