From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laurent Vivier Subject: Re: 63 sectors Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:15:34 +0200 Message-ID: <1220526934.4143.2.camel@frecb07144> References: <48BE46DD.1070703@qumranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Avi Kivity , KVM list , "H. Peter Anvin" To: Ian Kirk Return-path: Received: from ecfrec.frec.bull.fr ([129.183.4.8]:59740 "EHLO ecfrec.frec.bull.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751691AbYIDLPj (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2008 07:15:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Le jeudi 04 septembre 2008 =C3=A0 09:58 +0100, Ian Kirk a =C3=A9crit : > Avi Kivity wrote: >=20 > > - add a partitioning tool (or option to qemu-img) to format the dis= k, placing > > the first partition on the fourth cylinder, aligning it. tell the = users not > > to wipe the disks out but instead install to one of the existing pa= rititions >=20 > I thought that updating qemu-img to have quasi-fdisk functionality wa= s a > good idea myself. Is there a respected libfdisk.so thing that could b= e > used to abstract most of the work ? libparted ? Laurent --=20 ----------------- Laurent.Vivier@bull.net ------------------ "La perfection est atteinte non quand il ne reste rien =C3=A0 ajouter mais quand il ne reste rien =C3=A0 enlever." Saint Exup=C3=A9ry