From: Matt Howard <mhoward@sigins.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Re: Re: MS Windows 2000 installation report
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 23:41:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c5ife0$tnc$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200404132357.04597.jm@poure.com
Jean-Michel POURE wrote:
> "bximage" creates virtual discs much faster than the dd utility (which
> looses time writing zeros to disc). If Bochs is installed, just enter
> "bximage" in a shell and answer questions.
dd doesn't need to write zeros either. To create a sparse file, do this:
dd if=/dev/zero of=foo.bin bs=1 count=0 seek=5G
It should return almost immediately.
>
> Very usable... Qemu rocks my friends.
Agreed.
>
> Cheers, Jean-Michel
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Matt Howard <mhoward@sigins.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-14 4:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-13 12:01 [Qemu-devel] MS Windows 2000 installation report Jean-Michel POURE
2004-04-13 18:37 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gabriel Ebner
2004-04-13 18:47 ` Jean-Michel POURE
2004-04-13 19:16 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gabriel Ebner
2004-04-13 21:25 ` Gabriel Ebner
2004-04-13 21:57 ` Jean-Michel POURE
2004-04-13 22:13 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gabriel Ebner
2004-04-13 22:23 ` Jean-Michel POURE
2004-04-14 4:41 ` Matt Howard [this message]
2004-04-13 19:06 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jean-Michel POURE
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