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2016 Dec 18
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[PATCH] appliance: Disable EDD (edd=off) (RHBZ#1404287).
EDD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Disk_Drive) is a BIOS INT 13h
subcall for communicating the extended size of the boot disk over 8GB
to the OS. Since libguestfs doesn't use a boot disk, and the
appliance disk is limited to 4GB, and we use virtio-scsi, this is all
useless.
EDD is also broken currently on RHEL 7.3, see:
https://bugzilla....