From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ljgwf-0001cQ-Qz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:35:33 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LjgwZ-0001am-GZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:35:33 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54343 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LjgwZ-0001aj-CQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:35:27 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:58141 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LjgwY-0001s9-Vo for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:35:27 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LjgwW-00062B-Gk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:35:24 +0000 Received: from 143.166.197.6 ([143.166.197.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:35:24 +0000 Received: from Charles_Duffy by 143.166.197.6 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:35:24 +0000 From: Charles Duffy Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:35:24 -0500 Message-ID: <49C0179C.1070202@messageone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Sender: news Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Creating a (resizable) image which will hold Windows XP Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Allen Meyers wrote: > allen@debian:~$ qemu-img create -f qcow /path/to/xp.cow 1300M > bash: qemu-img: command not found First, your qemu isn't installed correctly -- modern versions of the package will also include a "qemu-img" utility, which the command line you gave relies on. Second -- don't use qcow for anything, as it's long-undeveloped and generally not well supported; use qcow2 in its place if you must -- or, if the only feature you care about is that the file grows only as you add contents to the VM, consider a sparse raw file, which will have better reliability and performance; these can be created by standard UNIX tools such as dd. > HOWTO: Install Windows XP in Debian using QEMU I'm unfamiliar with this HOWTO you're following. Did you include a link to it anywhere in your email? Is it maintained by any qemu developer, or someone else (such as Debian's documentation team)? If the latter, bugs in such documentation should be brought up with whoever maintains it.