Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Using Qemu to install Linux in a Windows XP

[Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>]

Ronald wrote:
> Le Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:40:22 -0500, Brett Bonfield a écrit :
> 
> 
>>On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 22:46:59 +0100, Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Brett Bonfield wrote:
>>> > [...]
>>>
>>>>Also, would you consider making QEMUMenu.bat work with "dd for Win32"
>>>>as well as it works with Zitu's program. dd for Win32 is available
>>>>here: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite/dd.htm
>>>>
>>>>The advantage it has over mkqemuimage.exe is that it can make any size
>>>>images, at least so far as I can tell. The logic John Newbigin emailed
>>>>goes as follows:
>>>
>>>Then why not fixing mkqemuimage.exe to do that too ?
>>>
>>>Fabrice.
>>
>>I hope I didn't offend anyone and I definitely didn't mean to imply that
>>dd for Win32 was somehow better than mkqemuimage.exe. Honestly, I don't
>>know anything about mkqemuimage--someone on the Mepis forum suggested
>>using dd so I investigated how to do that on Windows. Is there a good
>>reason to use mkqemuimage instead of dd for Win32? I have no idea how to
>>adjust mkqemuimage so that it meets my needs, but if someone else wants to
>>take on that project I suspect I'm one of many people who would be
>>grateful.
>>
>>Brett
> 
> 
> Is there a particular reason to not use qemu-img.exe?
> mkqemuimage is perhaps much simpler to use but have this 2G limit and only
> output raw images.
> 
> Anyway this is a nice tool that have been created for making empty images
> to use with qemu on windows instead of borrowing one from another project.  

OOops, sorry, I wanted to say that qemu-img.exe should be used instead 
of other tools as it handles all images formats that QEMU supports and 
some manipulations like AES encryption and compression.

Fabrice.