Comment 3 for bug 893956

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:41 AM, franxico <email address hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having the same problem. I'm using qemu-img 1.0, running from a
> Ubuntu Server 12.04 x64 on a SW RAID, ext4.
>
> The .VHD has 29GB and was made using disk2vhd.
>
> Here is the command and the results:
> sudo kvm-img convert -f vpc -O raw image.VHD image.img
> [sudo] password for sysop:
> kvm-img: Could not open 'image.VHD': File too large
> kvm-img: Could not open 'image.VHD'
>
> Same error doing a simple qemu-img info image.vhd

Serge Hallyn introduced the size check when VHD files are opened, you
can read about the background here:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/106736/

I'm not sure if QEMU has a bug or lacks support for the file format
version used by disk2vhd.

>
> Thanks for your help
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/893956
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> Title:
> qemu-img bug with dynamic vhd
>
> Status in QEMU:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Hye, i found a problem with qemu-img when trying to get info of a
> dynamic vhd. I made imgae of my 60GB computer hard drive with
> disk2vhd. The dynamic vhd is 21gb size.
>
> With 1.0-rc3 version :
> running command: qemu-img info 60_GB.VHD
> qemu-img: Could not open '60_GB.VHD' : File too large
>
> 0.14.1 version give me wrong information :
> image: 60_GB.VHD
> file format: vpc
> virtual size: 127G (136899993600 bytes)
> disk size: 21G
>
> Thanks for reply.
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