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+qemu does not accept regular disk geometry
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+Hi, 
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+I am currently hunting a strange bug in qemu/kvm:
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+I am using an lvm logical volume as a virtual hard disk for a virtual machine. 
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+I use fdisk or parted to create a partition table and partitions, kpartx to generate the device entries for the partitions, then install linux on ext3/ext4 with grub or msdos filesystem with syslinux. 
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+But then, in most cases even the boot process fails or behaves strangely, sometimes even mounting the file system in the virtual machine fails. It seems as if there is a problem with the virtual disk geometry. The problem does not seem to occur if I reboot the host system after creating the partition table on the logical volume. I guess the linux kernel needs to learn the disk geometry by reboot. A blkdev --rereadpt does not work on lvm volumes. 
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+The first approach to test/fix the problem would be to pass the disk geometry to qemu/lvm with the -drive option. Unfortunately, qemu/kvm does not accept the default geometry with 255 heads and 63 sectors. Seems to limit the number of heads to 16, thus limiting the disk size.
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