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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Christopher Friedt wrote:
> 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 have no idea what you're talking about.  QEMU doesn't care whether you 
use a physical disk or a file.  It handles geometry the same way.

Is there a concrete example that doesn't work that you think should?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> 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
>
>
>