Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: vpc support for ~2 TB disks

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 08:59:32PM -0600, Charles Arnold wrote:
> The VHD specification allows for up to a 2 TB disk size. The current
> implementation in qemu emulates EIDE and ATA-2 hardware which only allows
> for up to 127 GB.  This disk size limitation can be overridden by allowing
> up to 255 heads instead of the normal 4 bit limitation of 16.  Doing so
> allows disk images to be created of up to nearly 2 TB.  This change does
> not violate the VHD format specification nor does it change how smaller
> disks (ie, <=127GB) are defined. 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Charles Arnold <address@hidden>

Thanks, applied to my block-next tree:
https://github.com/stefanha/qemu/commits/block-next

Stefan