Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 618533] Re: OpenSolaris guest fails to see the Solaris partitions of a physical disk in qemu-kvm-9999 (GIT)

[Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 7:03 AM, devsk <618533@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
> hello? anybody home?
>
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> OpenSolaris guest fails to see the Solaris partitions of a physical disk in qemu-kvm-9999 (GIT)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/618533
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> Status in QEMU: New
>
> Bug description:
> # qemu-kvm --version
> QEMU emulator version 0.13.50 (qemu-kvm-devel), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice 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 = sectors of 1 * 512 = 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 seen in Virtualbox.
>
> This makes the guest unbootable in Qemu because the root FS is not found but its bootable in Virtualbox.

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