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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: vpc support for ~2 TB disks
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:35:31 +0100
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Il 14/11/2012 17:25, Thanos Makatos ha scritto:
> We don't use qemu's VHD driver in XenServer. Instead, we use blktap2
> to create a block device in dom0 serving the VHD file in question,
> and have qemu open that block device instead of the VHD file itself.

Yes, the question is how you handle disks bigger than 127GB, so that
QEMU can do the same.

Paolo