[Xen-devel] HVMAssist BIOS 32 GB Barrier

[Tomas Florian <tomas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I'm trying to run a HVM guest with a hard drive > 33.8 GB and it says it 
works, but as soon as I start writing data to it I get hundreds of:
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,65)): ext3_new_block: Allocating block in 
system zone - block = 8257846
and after a few minutes the hard drive corrupts itself (even superblock 
lost)
Looking at the qemu-dm.log file I can see that no matter what size of 
disk I use I get:
HVMAssist BIOS, 1 cpu, $Revision: 1.138 $ $Date: 2005/05/07 15:55:26 $
ata0-0: PCHS=5952/16/63 translation=lba LCHS=744/128/63
ata0 master: QEMU HARDDISK ATA-2 Hard-Disk (2929 MBytes)
*ata0-1: PCHS=16383/16/63 translation=lba LCHS=1024/255/63
ata0  slave: QEMU HARDDISK ATA-2 Hard-Disk (32120 MBytes)
*

This looks to me like the BIOS has some kind of a barrier on it.  Is 
there a way to overcome this barrier?   I'm using the xen0-3.0.1-4 
package from FC5.  Would an upgrade to the newest changeset help? And on 
a more general note?   What will give me more stability (among all the 
unstable) ... a released rpm like the one from FC5 or the newest latest 
changeset from the unstable branch?   Even the 3.0.1-4 rpm is from the 
unstable branch in the end ...right?
In the end I'll probably mount NFS and deal with the limit that way ... 
but it would be nice to do it properly
Thank you,
Tomas

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