From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
To: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu Booting a PC without an MBR?
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 14:00:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130902130029.GC18409@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52203B8D.5030507@kamp.de>
Actually assuming it's a Linux guest, a third option would be:
(3) Use an external kernel + initrd:
guestfish -a disk.img -i
><fs> download /boot/vmlinuz-... /tmp/kernel
><fs> download /boot/initrd-... /tmp/initrd
qemu -kernel /tmp/kernel -initrd /tmp/initrd -hda disk.img ...
Rich.
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Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a
live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests.
http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-02 13:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-30 6:28 [Qemu-devel] Qemu Booting a PC without an MBR? Peter Lieven
2013-08-30 6:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-30 6:43 ` Peter Lieven
2013-08-30 11:01 ` Fam Zheng
2013-09-02 12:59 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2013-09-02 13:00 ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
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