From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] wishlist: new image format
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 12:20:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200411231220.39476.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041123093005.GA5206@nancy.sattler.local>
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 09:30, Thomas Sattler wrote:
> Hi there ...
>
> Would it be possible to support squashfs images? I know a squashfs
> enabled kernel within the image is needed, but it will not be enough,
> qemu needs to know how to handle/boot this image. Right?
No. qemu doesn't care what filesystem you use on the image.
Qemu just emulates the harddrive. Filesystem management is up to the guest
operating system, just like a real machine. To boot from a squashfs partition
you'll need a bootloader capable of reading squashfs, again just like a real
machine.
Paul
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-23 12:30 UTC|newest]
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2004-11-23 9:30 [Qemu-devel] wishlist: new image format Thomas Sattler
2004-11-23 12:20 ` Paul Brook [this message]
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