From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41223) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGTkK-0004Fb-Bp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2013 09:00:49 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGTkC-0002yW-OP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2013 09:00:44 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:50523) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGTkC-0002yJ-GC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2013 09:00:36 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 14:00:29 +0100 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Message-ID: <20130902130029.GC18409@redhat.com> References: <52203B8D.5030507@kamp.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <52203B8D.5030507@kamp.de> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu Booting a PC without an MBR? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Lieven Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" Actually assuming it's a Linux guest, a third option would be: (3) Use an external kernel + initrd: guestfish -a disk.img -i > download /boot/vmlinuz-... /tmp/kernel > download /boot/initrd-... /tmp/initrd qemu -kernel /tmp/kernel -initrd /tmp/initrd -hda disk.img ... Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v