From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: Cloop-Driver, was Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU with KNOPPIX
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 00:32:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <412FB67B.4070705@bellard.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0408271844500.12292@wgmdd8.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
I'll merge your cloop patch ASAP.
Fabrice.
Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
>
>>On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Piotr Krysik wrote:
>>
>>>It can work in Windows, if you implement support
>>>of cloop-compatible image format in Qemu executable.
>>>
>>>Just look at qcow compressed image format. Qemu
>>>doesn't require any additional services from host
>>>OS. The decompression is implemented by Qemu and
>>>is transparent for guest.
>>
>>Hint: for space reasons, the cloop image is an ISO9660 formatted Linux
>>system, so you probably have to have an ISO9660 enabled (not module)
>>kernel, and you probably have to specify the kernel separately via
>>"-kernel", as the cloop image (at least to my knowledge) does not contain
>>a valid boot loader.
>
>
> Okay, so I hacked together a driver which is able to read at least the
> newest Knoppix image (from 3.6EN).
>
> Only problem: When you start it with
>
> qemu -hda /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX \
> -kernel /cdrom/boot/isolinux/linux24 \
> -initrd /cdrom/boot/isolinux/minirt24.gz \
> -append root=/dev/hda
>
> Knoppix believes it runs from the HD (installed version) and does not
> recreate /etc/fstab, and then just stops.
>
> Any Knoppix hackers out there? Maybe one can trick Knoppix into recreating
> all these files nontheless?
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-27 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-25 7:09 [Qemu-devel] QEMU with KNOPPIX Kuniyasu Suzaki
2004-08-25 10:02 ` John R. Hogerhuis
2004-08-26 5:19 ` Kuniyasu Suzaki
2004-08-26 6:13 ` John R. Hogerhuis
2004-08-26 7:57 ` Kuniyasu Suzaki
2004-08-26 9:34 ` John R. Hogerhuis
2004-08-27 5:58 ` Kuniyasu Suzaki
2004-08-26 11:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2004-08-26 12:56 ` Piotr Krysik
2004-08-26 15:49 ` Johannes Schindelin
2004-08-27 6:06 ` Kuniyasu Suzaki
2004-08-27 8:35 ` Piotr Krysik
2004-08-27 10:08 ` Johannes Schindelin
2004-08-27 17:00 ` Cloop-Driver, was " Johannes Schindelin
2004-08-27 20:40 ` Juergen Lock
2004-08-29 13:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2004-08-30 4:32 ` coLinux and " Kuniyasu Suzaki
2004-08-27 22:32 ` Fabrice Bellard [this message]
2004-08-27 22:40 ` Fabrice Bellard
2004-08-28 3:53 ` Kuniyasu Suzaki
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