** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: kvm
  
  KVM Version: 1:72+dfsg-1ubuntu6
  QEMU Version: 0.9.1-5ubuntu3
  Description:    Ubuntu 8.10
  Release:        8.10
  
- File Data and Filename corruption occurs when coping large files to a
+ File Data and Filename corruption occur when copying large files to a
  Virtual FAT (VFAT) drive.  I noticed this when copying ISO images
  between 150MB and 200MB from WindowsXP guest to the Linux host.  These
  ISO images would not boot.  Suspecting corruption, I confirmed MD5 hash
- values of guest and host copies of these ISO images were different.  (In
- fact, the guest OS calculated the correct hashes of the files on the
- VFAT drive after copying.)
+ values of guest and host copies of these ISO images were different.
+ (The guest OS calculated the correct hashes for files on the VFAT drive,
+ but the files available to the host were corrupted.)
  
  Also, filename corruption also occurred.  For example, the VFAT
  directory on the host contained the file "pebuilder3110a.zip".   After
  "exporting" files named "pebuilder.iso", "pebuilder.log", and
  "pebuilder.log.iso.md5sum.txt" from the guest OS to the Linux host, the
  VFAT directory contained filenames "pebuilder.iso86.zip" (having the
  size of the ISO image), and "pebuilder.logmd5sum.txt" (having the size
- of the pebuilder.log" file).  Again, the this corruption was not
- detectable from the guest OS.
+ of the pebuilder.log" file).  Again, this corruption was not detectable
+ from the guest OS.
  
  Finally, I mounted the guest OS disk image using Linux loop device.
  Copying the ISO files from the NTFS file system using this method was
  successful.  Using PuTTY's sftp also worked.
  
+ To be clear, this corruption was observed when using both KVM and QEMU.
+ 
  I hope this report is helpful.  I can provided more information if it
  would be valuable.  But, this was frustratingly easy to reproduce.  I am
  willing to help in any way.

** Tags added: kvm qemu virtualfat

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Corruption of File Data/Filename w/ Virtual FAT (VFAT)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356808
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