From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fd6a1-0005RG-B3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 May 2006 10:19:21 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fd6Zz-0005Qw-Qs for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 May 2006 10:19:20 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fd6Zz-0005Qt-Lw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 May 2006 10:19:19 -0400 Received: from [128.8.10.163] (helo=po1.wam.umd.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fd6aq-0005TU-Dz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 May 2006 10:20:12 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 10:19:11 -0400 From: "Jim C. Brown" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] using partition images Message-ID: <20060508141911.GA2869@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> References: <20060508035346.GA12697@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> <445F1B6C.70205@bellard.org> <20060508122620.GA19236@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> <200605081411.42503.paul@codesourcery.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200605081411.42503.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: Paul Brook Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:11:36PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote: > > I'll work on this tonight. I've been thinking about doing this, since it > > would allow one to use any qemu-supported disk image format as a partition > > image. > > > > I can't think of any disk format that's heavily used in qemu that is > > normally used for partition images except for raw. OTOH it might be > > interesting to have qcow partition images. > > If done properly this should also allow use of vmware split image files. > It'd probably be easier to fix the vmdk driver to handle these natively. If split vmdks are just a series of partition images plus an image of an MBR/partition table then it may be possible to hack this up via a partition driver that supported harddisk sharing (using multiple partition images as part of the same hard disk). > Paul > -- Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty. Infinite precision begets infinite perfection.