From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EbKlj-0007hh-J8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 11:31:51 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EbKlh-0007hK-Ki for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 11:31:51 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EbKlh-0007hH-G6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 11:31:49 -0500 Received: from [81.187.81.51] (helo=smtp.aaisp.net.uk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1EbKlh-0006OP-Ir for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 11:31:49 -0500 Received: from [81.187.40.226] (helo=[81.187.40.226]) by smtp.aaisp.net.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.43) id 1EbKle-00015w-TV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:31:46 +0000 Message-ID: <43776A71.9000307@hermes.cam.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:31:45 +0000 From: Richard Neill MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Booting a partition image (not a disk image)? 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 Dear All, I hope this isn't a stupid question, but I can't find the answer to it anywhere. I have copied across the windows ME partition from an old machine, using dd if=/dev/hda2 | ssh me@newbox "cat > hda2.img" This has worked, and I can mount the filesystem fine. Is there any way I can boot this image using QEMU? i.e. there is no boot sector, and I've not copied the rest of the drive to save space. The obvious solution doesn't work: qemu -boot c -snapshot -hda hda2.img Thanks very much, Richard -- rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk ** http://www.richardneill.org Richard Neill, Trinity College, Cambridge, CB21TQ, U.K.