Re: [Qemu-devel] disk images & driver geometry

[Christopher Friedt <cfriedt@visible-assets.com>]

sorry, that subject should have read 'drive geometry'

Christopher Friedt wrote:
> Hi everyone,
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> has there been any work done in the last few months towards hard disk 
> geometry, so that partition tables / mbr's in raw hard disk files can be 
> stored for later use?
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> That's something that would be tremendously useful with the -hda option, 
> so that one could use a file for a virtual disk and expect qemu to 
> recognize the partition information from it. Usually if one does a 
> typical install with a linux distro, the linux install will format the 
> main hard disk to have 3 partitions (boot,root,swap), but if it's just a 
> file then that partition / mbr info isn't really recognized by qemu.
> 
> I've been out of the loop w/ what's happening on the bleeding edge with 
> qemu for a few months, so I thought I'd just ask here.
> 
> ~/Chris
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