[Parted-maintainers] Bug#803333: parted: cannot partition virtio attached DASD

[Viktor Mihajlovski]

Source: parted
Version: 3.2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

parted doesn't currently allow to partition DASDs when running inside
KVM on s390 machines. This is caused by outdated DASD handling code  
originating from the s390-tools fdasd tool.
Upstream parted has recently  been updated to allow to recognize and
partition DASDs that are passed to a KVM guest as virtio block devices.
It would be nice if you could cherry pick the following commits from
upstream parted to resolve the issue.

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parted.git/commit/?id=4d480d980a9b69b432b8d60df3c4397ba8cdc965
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parted.git/commit/?id=834713b5aee1edc004f863231dd489ee3a79f536

Thanks for your consideration.