From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50722 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oktv3-0001tS-FY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 03:15:47 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oktuz-00030w-N4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 03:15:41 -0400 Received: from adelie.canonical.com ([91.189.90.139]:44748) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oktuz-00030p-FE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 03:15:37 -0400 Received: from loganberry.canonical.com ([91.189.90.37]) by adelie.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69 #1 (Debian)) id 1Oktuy-0000F9-0Y for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:15:36 +0100 Received: from loganberry.canonical.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by loganberry.canonical.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 663FC2E8072 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:15:35 +0100 (BST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:08:16 -0000 From: devsk <618533@bugs.launchpad.net> Sender: bounces@canonical.com References: <20100816065520.4924.74848.malonedeb@gandwana.canonical.com> Message-Id: <20100816070816.2846.4441.malone@wampee.canonical.com> Errors-To: bounces@canonical.com Subject: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 618533] Re: OpenSolaris guest fails to see the Solaris partitions of a physical disk in qemu-kvm-9999 (GIT) Reply-To: Bug 618533 <618533@bugs.launchpad.net> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org This is a showstopper bug for me to adopt KVM as the virtualization solution because I just can't boot my OpenSolaris guest. I want to move to KVM because of in-kernel support and better SMP support. -- = OpenSolaris guest fails to see the Solaris partitions of a physical disk in= qemu-kvm-9999 (GIT) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/618533 You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. Status in QEMU: New Bug description: # qemu-kvm --version QEMU emulator version 0.13.50 (qemu-kvm-devel), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fab= rice Bellard The following disk is presented to guest as IDE disk with /dev/sdd as path. # fdisk -l /dev/sdd Disk /dev/sdd: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total 1465149168 sectors Units =3D sectors of 1 * 512 =3D 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x7f3a03aa Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdd1 63 7887914 3943926 1b Hidden W95 FAT32 /dev/sdd2 7887915 980736119 486424102+ 83 Linux /dev/sdd3 * 980736120 1083150494 51207187+ bf Solaris /dev/sdd4 1083150495 1465144064 190996785 5 Extended /dev/sdd5 1083150558 1107746009 12297726 83 Linux /dev/sdd6 1107746073 1465144064 178698996 7 HPFS/NTFS The prtvtoc output is attached from both VirtualBox and Qemu-KVM. As can be= seen in the screenshots, a valid Solaris partition table (which is inside = the /dev/sdd3, marked 'bf' in Linux fdisk output) is not seen in Qemu but s= een in Virtualbox. This makes the guest unbootable in Qemu because the root FS is not found bu= t its bootable in Virtualbox.