From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CTooW-0001oK-PK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:55:09 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CTooT-0001n5-Gk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:55:05 -0500 Received: from [129.104.30.34] (helo=mx1.polytechnique.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CTofi-00058X-Rz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:46:03 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by djali.polytechnique.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03DDB3319B for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 22:46:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from djali.polytechnique.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 09962-09 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 22:45:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from bellard.org (unknown [84.99.204.24]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ssl.polytechnique.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2A3E3318B for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 22:45:59 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <419923A1.4000905@bellard.org> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 22:46:09 +0100 From: Fabrice Bellard MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Using Qemu to install Linux in a Windows XP References: <5100168789854548368@unknownmsgid> <4197D253.1050606@bellard.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 Ronald wrote: > Le Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:40:22 -0500, Brett Bonfield a =E9crit : >=20 >=20 >>On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 22:46:59 +0100, Fabrice Bellard >>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 siz= e >>>>images, at least so far as I can tell. The logic John Newbigin emaile= d >>>>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 tha= t >>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 t= o >>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 >=20 >=20 > Is there a particular reason to not use qemu-img.exe? > mkqemuimage is perhaps much simpler to use but have this 2G limit and o= nly > output raw images. >=20 > Anyway this is a nice tool that have been created for making empty imag= es > to use with qemu on windows instead of borrowing one from another proje= ct. =20 OOops, sorry, I wanted to say that qemu-img.exe should be used instead=20 of other tools as it handles all images formats that QEMU supports and=20 some manipulations like AES encryption and compression. Fabrice.