Invalid Drive Geometry
This page is about features that have been removed from QEMU (after a deprecation period), and what new features should be used instead.
This example shows two hard drives, a compact flash drive, and an audio CD. /dev/sdb is the broken one. In the next screen we select the partition type: Disk /dev/sdb - 640 GB / 596 GiB - WDC WD6401AALS-00J7B1 Please select the partition table type, press Enter when done. Then I examined the drive geometry in the virtual machine. 'fdisk -l' said the drive has only 14261 cylinders! (14593 is the correct value.) hdparm also reported the number of sectors is only 229113954. (234441648 is the real one.) So the virtual system cannot access sector no. 234436539 and so on.
- Mar 29, 2018 Returns information about the physical disk's geometry (media type, number of cylinders, tracks per cylinder, sectors per track, and bytes per sector).The difference between IOCTLDISKGETDRIVEGEOMETRYEX and the older IOCTLDISKGETDRIVEGEOMETRY request is that IOCTLDISKGETDRIVEGEOMETRYEX can retrieve information from both Master Boot Record (MBR) and GUID Partition Table (GPT)-type.
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- Specifies a floppy image or images. DOSBox will automatically identify the disk geometry (360K, 1.2MB, 720K, 1.44MB, etc). Iso Specifies an optical disc iso image. The geometry is automatic and set for this size. This can be an iso or a cue/bin. Hdd Specifies a hard disk image. The proper CHS geometry must be set for this to work.-fs.
Removed command line parameters
| Parameter | Deprecated in | Removed in | Replacement |
|---|---|---|---|
| -balloon | v2.12.0 | v3.1.0 | The -balloon option has been replaced by -device virtio-balloon. |
| -bootp | v2.6.0 | v3.1.0 | The -bootp /some/file argument is replaced by either -netdev user,id=x,bootp=/some/file (for pluggable NICs, accompanied with -device …,netdev=x), or -nic user,bootp=/some/file (for embedded NICs). The new syntax allows different settings to be provided per NIC. |
| -drive serial=r -drive trans=t -drive secs=s -drive heads=h -drive cyls=c -drive addr=a | v2.10.0 | v3.0.0 | The drive geometry should now be specified via -device …,drive=dr,cyls=c,heads=h,secs=s,bios-chs-trans=t,addr=a,serial=r (together with -drive if=none,id=dr,…). |
| -hdachs | v2.10.0 | v2.12.0 | The geometry defined by -hdachs c,h,s,t should now be specified via -device ide-hd,drive=dr,cyls=c,heads=h,secs=s,bios-chs-trans=t (together with -drive if=none,id=dr,…). |
| -localtime | v2.12.0 | v3.1.0 | Replaced by -rtc base=localtime |
| -net channel | v2.6.0 | v2.12.0 | Option has been replaced by -net user,guestfwd=… |
| -net dump | v2.10.0 | v2.12.0 | -net dump[,vlan=n][,file=filename][,len=maxlen] has been replaced by -object filter-dump,id=id,netdev=dev[,file=filename][,maxlen=maxlen]. Note that the new syntax works with netdev IDs instead of the old 'vlan' hubs. |
| -net …,vlan=x | v2.9.0 | v3.0.0 | To connect one NIC frontend with a network backend, either use -nic … (e.g. for on-board NICs) or use -netdev …,id=n together with -device …,netdev=n (for full control over pluggable NICs). To connect multiple NICs or network backends via a hub device (which is what vlan did), use -nic hubport,hubid=x,… or -netdev hubport,id=n,hubid=x,… (together with -device …,netdev=n) instead. |
| -nodefconfig | v2.11.0 | v3.1.0 | Use -no-user-config instead. |
| -no-kvm-irqchip | v1.3.0 | v3.0.0 | Use -machine kernel_irqchip=off instead. |
| -no-kvm-pit | v1.3.0 | v2.12.0 | There is no replacement, since this was just a dummy option that has been ignored. |
| -no-kvm-pit-reinjection | v1.3.0 | v3.0.0 | Use -global kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=discard instead. |
| -redir | v2.6.0 | v3.1.0 | The -redir [tcp|udp]:hostport:[guestaddr]:guestport argument is replaced by either -netdev user,id=x,hostfwd=[tcp|udp]:[hostaddr]:hostport-[guestaddr]:guestport (for pluggable NICs, accompanied with -device …,netdev=x) or -nic user,hostfwd=[tcp|udp]:[hostaddr]:hostport-[guestaddr]:guestport (for embedded NICs). The new syntax allows different settings to be provided per NIC. |
| -rtc-td-hack | v2.12.0 | v3.1.0 | Use -rtc driftfix=slew instead. |
| -smb | v2.6.0 | v3.1.0 | The -smb /some/dir argument is replaced by either -netdev user,id=x,smb=/some/dir (for pluggable NICs, accompanied with -device …,netdev=x), or -nic user,smb=/some/dir (for embedded NICs). The new syntax allows different settings to be provided per NIC. |
| -startdate | v2.12.0 | v3.1.0 | Replaced by -rtc base=date. |
| -tdf | v1.3.0 | v2.12.0 | There is no replacement, the -tdf option has just been ignored since the behaviour that could be changed by this option in qemu-kvm is now the default when using the KVM PIT. It still can be requested explicitly using -global kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=discard. |
| -tftp | v2.6.0 | v3.1.0 | The -tftp /some/dir argument is replaced by either -netdev user,id=x,tftp=/some/dir (for pluggable NICs, accompanied with -device …,netdev=x), or -nic user,tftp=/some/dir (for embedded NICs). The new syntax allows different settings to be provided per NIC. |
| -vnc …,tls=… -vnc …,x509=… -vnc …,x509verify=… | v2.5.0 | v3.1.0 | The 'tls-creds' option should be used instead to point to a 'tls-creds-x509' object created using '-object' |
Removed HMP commands
| Parameter | Deprecated in | Removed in | Replacement |
|---|---|---|---|
| usb_add and usb_remove | v2.10.0 | v2.12.0 | Replaced by device_add and device_del (use device_add help for a list of available devices) |
| host_net_add and host_net_remove | v2.10.0 | v2.12.0 | Replaced by netdev_add and netdev_del |
Removed devices
| Device | Deprecated in | Removed in | Replacement |
|---|---|---|---|
| ivshmem | v2.6.0 | v4.0.0 | Replaced by either the ivshmem-plain or ivshmem-doorbell |
| spapr-pci-vfio-host-bridge | v2.6.0 | v2.12.0 | The spapr-pci-vfio-host-bridge device type has been replaced by the spapr-pci-host-bridge device type. |
Removed machine types
Invalid Drive Geometry Victoria
| Machine | Deprecated in | Removed in | Replacement |
|---|---|---|---|
| dummy (m68k) | v2.9.0 | v2.9.0 | Use the none machine with the loader device instead. |
| pc-0.10 - pc-0.11 | v3.0.0 | v4.0.0 | Use a newer pc-i440fx-x.y machine type instead. |
| s390-virtio | v2.6.0 | v2.6.0 | Use the s390-ccw-virtio machine instead. |
| xlnx-ep108 | v2.11.0 | v3.0.0 | The EP108 was an early access development board that is no longer used. Use the xlnx-zcu102 machine instead. |
Warning Invalid Drive Geometry
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