Bochs使用vmware disk问题

Bochs使用vmware的vmdk时

 

This is from the 10gb file: 

00000000000d[HD   ] VMware 4 disk geometry: 
00000000000d[HD   ]    .size      = 10737418240 
00000000000d[HD   ]    .cylinders = 2130440 
00000000000d[HD   ]    .heads     = 16 
00000000000d[HD   ]    .sectors   = 63 
00000000000i[HD   ] ata0-0: autodetect geometry: CHS=2130440/16/63 
... 
00002202905i[BIOS ] ata0-0: PCHS=16383/16/63 translation=none LCHS=1024/16/63 

To compute cylinders the code does divide size by 16*63: 

10737418240 / (16*63) = 10652200 
2130440 * (16*63) = 2147483520 

So the value for 10GB is calcuated wrong too, but it doesn't matter since the max value of 
16383 is being used later. 2147483520 is almost 2^31 

The code in iodev/vmware4.cc at line 84 is: 
cylinders = (unsigned)hd_size / (16 * 63) 

hd_size is Bit64u. So the cast to unsigned does truncate the value. 
In case of 10737418240 (0x280000000) it is 2147483648 (0x80000000). 
2147483648 / (16*63) = 2130440,12... 

In case of the 8GB file: 

00000000000d[HD   ] VMware 4 disk geometry: 
00000000000d[HD   ]    .size      = 8589934592 
00000000000d[HD   ]    .cylinders = 0 
00000000000d[HD   ]    .heads     = 16 
00000000000d[HD   ]    .sectors   = 63 

It is 8589934592 (0x200000000) so we get 0. 

 

从而造成磁盘不能被正确识别读取，需要修改以下代码

 

The code in iodev/vmware4.cc at line 84: 

 

cylinders = (unsigned)hd_size / (16 * 63); 
to 
cylinders = (unsigned)(header.total_sectors / (16 * 63));