From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DqLkF-00070r-A6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2005 22:04:07 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DqLk8-0006vd-Gs for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2005 22:04:02 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqLk3-0006sj-LK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2005 22:03:55 -0400 Received: from [64.233.184.203] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DqLfr-0006sO-JK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2005 21:59:35 -0400 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 49so123101wri for ; Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:53:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 10:53:00 +0900 From: Magnus Damm Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Building a disk image? In-Reply-To: <20050706235752.GA14466@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050705204209.GB18456@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> <20050706235752.GA14466@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> Reply-To: Magnus Damm , qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Jim C. Brown" Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 7/7/05, Jim C. Brown wrote: > This is quite clever. I don't see the sources for fsimage (the host progr= am) > anywhere though - it would be a lot more useful if one could tinker with = both > the host and the guest sides. This can be made to cover everything except > resizing qcow images (and there is already work on that particular front > elsewhere). The goal was to build a small distribution that could be used to modify filesystems in a host-independent way, without root permissions. But now I find myself using fsimage for all kinds of tasks, kernel programming, booting laptops without cdroms etc. So yeah, thanks, I actually think it is pretty clever too. =3D) But the source for the host program _is_ included, or rather, the host program is a shell script. And, another cool thing is that it comes with full source code. So people that want to tinker with it could download fsimage-0.1.2-guest-src.tar.gz and type configure, make and make install. Download from: http://www.smallworks.com/~jim/fsimage/ > Could be especially useful for manipulating disk images on Windows hosts. Yep, as long as the tftp server path prefix thing gets sorted out then I think everything will be ok. But it depends on a bourne shell right now, maybe it is better to replace the shell script with c code that can be compiled for both *nix and windows. / magnus