[Qemu-devel] Qemu limited to 11GB

[Dag Wieers]

Hi,

When I try to use a 80GB disk with qemu, the BIOS (and underlying os) 
reports it as a 10GB disk. I've tried providing the CHS values using 
-hdachs, but it does not work either.

        qemu -hdachs "155061,16,63" -hda /dev/hda

Is qemu limited to < 11GB disks, is there a bug or am I doing something 
wrong ? :)

The disk is said to be 10786 MB by the qemu BIOS, while in reality 
Linux reports: 80026 MB. Linux reports CHS=65535/16/63, while fdisk 
reports: 155061,16,63

It would be useful to have the qemu BIOS print out the CHS it is using.

Kind regards,
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