Re: Cloop-Driver, was Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU with KNOPPIX

[Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>]

I'll merge your cloop patch ASAP.

Fabrice.

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Piotr Krysik wrote:
>>
>>>It can work in Windows, if you implement support
>>>of cloop-compatible image format in Qemu executable.
>>>
>>>Just look at qcow compressed image format. Qemu
>>>doesn't require any additional services from host
>>>OS. The decompression is implemented by Qemu and
>>>is transparent for guest.
>>
>>Hint: for space reasons, the cloop image is an ISO9660 formatted Linux
>>system, so you probably have to have an ISO9660 enabled (not module)
>>kernel, and you probably have to specify the kernel separately via
>>"-kernel", as the cloop image (at least to my knowledge) does not contain
>>a valid boot loader.
> 
> 
> Okay, so I hacked together a driver which is able to read at least the
> newest Knoppix image (from 3.6EN).
> 
> Only problem: When you start it with
> 
> qemu -hda /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX \
>   -kernel /cdrom/boot/isolinux/linux24 \
>   -initrd /cdrom/boot/isolinux/minirt24.gz \
>   -append root=/dev/hda
> 
> Knoppix believes it runs from the HD (installed version) and does not
> recreate /etc/fstab, and then just stops.
> 
> Any Knoppix hackers out there? Maybe one can trick Knoppix into recreating
> all these files nontheless?
> 
> Ciao,
> Dscho
> 
> 
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