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andreigrig

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Registered: 2016-02-04

Posts: 20

Block Disks broken in qemu 2.7.0-2

Hi all,

I've been using this for quite some time to add native NTFS partitions directly into a Windows Guest:

<disk type='block' device='disk'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none' io='native'/>
      <source dev='/dev/sda3'/>
      <target dev='vdc' bus='scsi'/>
</disk>

for some weird reason after the latest qemu patch, this partitions are showing up in the guest really strange: they are split into 3 unallocated partitions of different sizes. (The partition is just one and formatted with NTFS).

Upon mounting the partition on the Linux host it works fine. Data is not corrupted and so on. I have tested with every single NTFS partition and this happens always.

I didn't change anything else in the configuration besides updating this. There is also nothing in the log files.

Is there any known workaround?

Thanks,
Andrei.