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RE: [Xen-devel] Guests not seeing > 4GB disk on 32bit


  • To: "Owen Smith" <owen.smith@xxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:51:09 +1000
  • Cc:
  • Delivery-date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:52:16 -0700
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
  • Thread-index: AcsRSBfTCpmNLXpuQGii2mg+3wotwQAAKgDQ
  • Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] Guests not seeing > 4GB disk on 32bit

> 
> Allocating a 4GB or higher size disk image on a 32bit version of
xen-unstable
> (built from source pulled from repo 18/06/2010) causes guests to see
it as a
> 4GB disk (a problem for Windows7, which requires 5.6GB for an
installation)
> 
> Using the file:/ directive applied a 4GB limit on the virtual disk
size
> 
> When I used a Losetup and phy: to point to the file, the limit wasn't
there
> 

What filesystem is the file image on?

James

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