From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bs3Ke-0005ff-CH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 13:44:12 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bs3Kc-0005fH-QP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 13:44:12 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bs3Kc-0005f7-Nb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 13:44:10 -0400 Received: from [64.233.170.196] (helo=mproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bs3H1-0001EM-Kq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 13:40:27 -0400 Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 79so193733rnl for ; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 10:40:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <76bfb9d20408031040a1e9768@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 13:40:26 -0400 From: Garth Dahlstrom Subject: RE: [Qemu-devel] Making an Image of XP In-Reply-To: <3505347825290313065@unknownmsgid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3505347825290313065@unknownmsgid> 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 Jeff, you can use dd to create a large empty file... This is what I used on Cygwin: dd of=hda.img bs=1M count=6000 seek=6000 to make a 6GB image file, on Linux/Unix you may have to add if=/dev/zero (I'm not sure). Windows set-up should recognize this as a hard disk with no partition table, when you use hda.img as your QEMU -hda device. -G