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Subject: [Qemu-devel] disk images & driver geometry
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To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Hi everyone,

has there been any work done in the last few months towards hard disk 
geometry, so that partition tables / mbr's in raw hard disk files can be 
stored for later use?

That's something that would be tremendously useful with the -hda option, 
so that one could use a file for a virtual disk and expect qemu to 
recognize the partition information from it. Usually if one does a 
typical install with a linux distro, the linux install will format the 
main hard disk to have 3 partitions (boot,root,swap), but if it's just a 
file then that partition / mbr info isn't really recognized by qemu.

I've been out of the loop w/ what's happening on the bleeding edge with 
qemu for a few months, so I thought I'd just ask here.

~/Chris