Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1062589] [NEW] Xp guest disk is corrupted when the data size exceeds 4 GB

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 10:30:15PM -0000, pil926 wrote:
> Host :
> - 2.6.30.10 i686 pentium3 i386 GNU/Linux
...
> Everything is running pretty good until data size on disk C exceeds 4
> GB. I Tried many options before figuring out that the problem occurs
> when data size exceeds 4 GB. I tried with QEMU 1.2.50, same problem.

Can you perform the same test on a x86_64 host?  The i686 host and 4 GB
threshold suggests this is a 32-bit/64-bit portability bug.

Did a previous QEMU version work for you?  git-bisect(1) can be used to find
which commit introduced the regression.

Stefan