I recently had a problem in uploading a dynamic vpc image created by qemu-img to Azure. When creating a dynamic vpc image with qemu-img, the bat size is created by rounding up PhysicalSize/BlockSize. It needs to be rounded up this way to contain the end blocks of the disk.
Uploading the image to Azure, the dynamic image gets converted to a fixed type image (Azure VMs only work with fixed type vpc images). In doing so, BlockSize * MaxTableEntries space is allocated. That is, the footer is placed after that much space within the fixed image file. This is done without changing the current size or original size fields in the image footer. When Azure then goes to instantiate a VM based on this disk image, it finds that the space allocated does not match the disk size specified in the image footer, and rejects the image on that basis. The error I'm seeing looks like this: VHD footer 'Current Size' field validation failed. VHD for disk 'cli272bc210215b6e94-os-1492546232759' with blob https://foo.blob.core.windows.net/disks/blah.vhd specifies size (272734617600) which does not match VHD blob size (272736715264) - VHD Footer Size (512). This seems to me to be a problem in the upload utility. However qemu-img could make dynamic vpc images that are still usable with Azure upload utilities if the user chooses the right disk size and it made the rounding calculation slightly differently. The calculation is currently done in block/vpc.c create_dynamic_disk() by doing this: num_bat_entries = (total_sectors + block_size / 512) / (block_size / 512); This rounds up. But if total_sectors happens to be a whole-number multiple of block_size it allocates one more bat entry than is necessary. By changing this calculation to: num_bat_entries = (total_sectors - 1 + block_size / 512) / (block_size / 512); enough bat entries continue to be allocated in the case where total_sectors is a whole-number multiple of block-size and preserves the rounding up where it is not. And the upload utility now will not change the disk size if the user chooses a disk size that is a multiple of the block size.
