From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dmy5n-00062b-9Y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:12:23 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dmy2v-0005QL-7z for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:09:26 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dmy2Z-00055m-5o for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:09:03 -0400 Received: from [209.55.3.84] (helo=mxo4.broadbandsupport.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DmxcI-00035n-OP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:41:54 -0400 Received: from organiza3bfb0e (unknown [209.33.77.51]) by mxo4.broadbandsupport.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 384A1A3B4B for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:13:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <003701c57b3b$73bb0350$334d21d1@organiza3bfb0e> From: References: <20050627144608.GA16320@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] What happened to linuxppc-img from Freeoszoo Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:12:43 -0500 Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Qemu mailing list "Jim C. Brown" >> Late last year, QEMU reworked the disk geometry, and that can confuse old >> disk images. The images expect an old style and the newer qemu offers a >> different geometry. > > No, the geometry reported by 0.7.0 (which sees the disk properly and can > mount > partition) and CVS (which can't see the partition table) are the same. > Right... But most of the images on FreeOSZoo were done using the *old* version of qemu, where the geometry is different. That means the geometry on the images may not be what newer versions of qemu expect. That's why I was asking what the date of the image was. > For the record, images I've used since qemu 0.5.2 still work fine with > CVS. > (I only use raw images though.) That's good for you. But some don't. The ReactOS image is a case I tested myself. When I saw it reported on the qemu forum, it was small enough that I spent a few minutes downloading it to test it. And newer versions of qemu most definetly would not handle it. Older versions (before the geometry change) could, though. > Actually, the reason that linux-ppc.img broke was due to a hack for > darwin/ppc. I didn't know. But I did know that a lot of the images on there are older ones that may have problems like reactos did, which is why I said that somebody needed to actually test each one, just to make sure they still work.