Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 477946] Re: XP guest install fails with NTFS format error

[Natalia Portillo]

It does not occur on QEMU's 0.12.3 neither 0.12.4, quick format, slow format, 
NTFS, FAT32, checked it personally.

Please fill a bug in Fedora as it must be some patch they applied.

El 05/07/2010, a las 15:48, Hanno Starling escribió:

> This problem still occurs in Fedora 13, with qemu-kvm-0.12.3
> I checked:
> yum install qemu-kvm
> ......
> Setting up Install Process
> Package 2:qemu-kvm-0.12.3-8.fc13.x86_64 already installed and latest version
> Nothing to do
> 
> -- 
> XP guest install fails with NTFS format error
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/477946
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> Status in QEMU: Fix Committed
> 
> Bug description:
> Ubuntu 9.10 on AMD6400X2, 2G RAM, all updates applied as of date of bug report
> Latest qemu-kvm installed (0.11)
> XP guest  install (XP Pro SP2) fails when attempting to format the install 
> partition (10G) as NTFS with the error "Setup was unable to format the 
> partition. The disk may be damaged". 512M memory allocated to VM, one 
> processor allocated. No additional qemu options specified.
> 
> However, can successfully format partition as FAT and complete install. 
> However, after so doing, scheduled an NTFS convert on next reboot of guest. 
> When the virtual machine was shut down and restarted, it immediately failed 
> with a 'missing NTLDR' error. This occurred before the NTFS conversion took 
> place.
> 
> Deleted all VMs and associated files and rebooted. Recreated the VM and 
> retried the install. Failed on format exactly as before. Disk subsystem 
> scanned, no errors found, no hardware problems have occurred previously, this 
> is a highly stable testbed machine which has been in use for years.
> 
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