Comment 7 for bug 893956

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Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn) wrote : Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 893956] Re: qemu-img bug with dynamic vhd

Quoting Stefan Hajnoczi (<email address hidden>):
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Serge Hallyn <email address hidden> wrote:
> > Though that commit and the comments were about 127G images. HIs is only
> > 27G.
>
> The 127 GB limit applies to the virtual disk size, not to the size of
> the image file itself.

I thought he had converted a roughly 26GB physical disk, assumed (perhaps
wrongly) that was the virtual disk size.

> > Also, 'qemu-img info' is also showing the error, which shows that this
> > is not being done on vpc_create().
>
> I'm not sure what you mean. Your commit (efc8243d00) added an -EFBIG
> return to vcp_open(), not vpc_create(). This will affect qemu-img
> info.

Oops, good point. Thanks.

> We need the header/footer contents to be sure what's going on here.