From: Jan Marten Simons <marten@xtal.rwth-aachen.de>
To: marian@famion.eu, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] a question
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:35:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4606C0DE.8030007@xtal.rwth-aachen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1172609357.9161.2.camel@pamela.famion.eu>
Marian-Nicolae V. Ion schrieb:
> Hello,
>
> Is is possible to boot qemu not from a disk image but directly from a
> partition ? i.e. I am on Linux Fedora, I have a partition with Mandriva
> (I use dual-boot and I can boot on it) but I would like to start my
> Mandriva system from qemu, not by rebooting the computer.
>
> Would it be possible? if yes, how?
>
Just supply the device name to qemu: qemu -hda /dev/hdc
You can also use a Partition this way, but then that partition has to
include a mbr and partition table.
This thread will be of interest to you:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2006-05/msg00164.html
I'm not sure, if the patch mentioned there was merged, yet.
with regards,
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-25 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-27 20:49 [Qemu-devel] a question Marian-Nicolae V. Ion
2007-03-25 18:35 ` Jan Marten Simons [this message]
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2011-05-04 15:26 [Qemu-devel] A Question Zhenkai Zhang
2011-05-04 15:46 ` Peter Maydell
2011-05-04 23:16 ` Rob Landley
2011-05-05 7:01 ` Peter Maydell
2011-05-05 22:13 ` Rob Landley
2011-05-05 22:32 ` Peter Maydell
2011-05-05 23:20 ` Rob Landley
2011-05-05 23:49 ` Peter Maydell
2016-08-26 14:31 [Qemu-devel] a question Michael Rolnik
2016-08-26 15:42 ` Peter Maydell
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