From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CWZok-0008O7-6n for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 07:30:46 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CWZoj-0008NX-Fi for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 07:30:45 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CWZoj-0008NQ-CI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 07:30:45 -0500 Received: from [65.74.133.9] (helo=mail.codesourcery.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CWZf6-0004Th-Pc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 07:20:49 -0500 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] wishlist: new image format Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 12:20:39 +0000 References: <20041123093005.GA5206@nancy.sattler.local> In-Reply-To: <20041123093005.GA5206@nancy.sattler.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200411231220.39476.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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