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From: "Jim C. Brown" <jma5@umd.edu>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Building a disk image?
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To: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 10:09:50AM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
> One solution for that problem would be to access the images through
> qemu. My little tool fsimage does that for you, but no bootloader is
> included for now. If there is enough interest then I would be happy to
> add new features such as bootloaders.
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2005-03/msg00106.html
> 
> / magnus
> 

This is quite clever. I don't see the sources for fsimage (the host program)
anywhere though - it would be a lot more useful if one could tinker with both
the host and the guest sides. This can be made to cover everything except
resizing qcow images (and there is already work on that particular front
elsewhere).

Could be especially useful for manipulating disk images on Windows hosts.

-- 
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