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Salvador Fandino schrieb:
> right now, you can use "-o offset" and "-s size" to serve a partition
> inside a partitioned disk image. And you can use fdisk or a similar tool
>  to examine the partition table (they work on /dev/nbd0).
>
> I am also looking for some working code to parse the MBR to incorporate
> it in qemu-nbds (something as libparted but simpler), so it would be
> possible to just indicate the partition number to serve.
>
> - Salva
>   
The code of lomount might be what you're looking for. Lomount allows one 
to mount partions (via loop) from a raw diskimage.


- Jan