From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CS1MO-0007Ac-Ct for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:54:40 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CS1MN-0007AQ-V8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:54:40 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CS1MN-0007AN-SC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:54:39 -0500 Received: from [64.233.170.205] (helo=rproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CS1Df-0008Po-J9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:45:39 -0500 Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id y7so29980rne for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:45:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:45:24 -0500 From: Brett Bonfield Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Using Qemu to install Linux in a Windows XP disk image Reply-To: Brett Bonfield , 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 Hi, Apologies for making an end-user request rather than posing a developer question or solution, but I'm not sure where else to ask the following. I'm trying to use Qemu (the latest Windows installer) to install and run the latest SimplyMEPIS .iso from a disk image so I can save changes, install software, etc. The SimplyMEPIS community has provided excellent guidance http://www.mepis.org/node/view/4066 but I haven't been able to complete what I think are the last few steps, in part because I have a very limited understanding of dd (note: I've been using dd rather than MakeQemuImage because I'd like an image larger than 2GB and because dd offers more documentation) and how it would interact with Qemu under Windows XP. As near as I can tell, there are three separate branches of dd available to Windows users (all three are open source: there may be others, but who cares, right?): 1. http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ 2. http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite/dd.htm 3. http://users.erols.com/gmgarner/forensics/ ( which requires that msvcr70.dll and getopt.dll from the same distro be in the folder with dd.exe ) I've been creating my disk image with the following command: dd of=hd.img bs=1024 seek=3000000 count=0 The whole point of this exercise is to install SimplyMEPIS under Qemu without having to partition my hard drive and without damaging my existing install of WinXP. Is this what dd allows? Does Qemu support this goal? Brett