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From: Brett Bonfield <pacella@gmail.com>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Re: Using Qemu to install Linux in a Windows
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> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 01:56:19 +0100
> From: Ronald <look@reply.to >
> Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Re: Using Qemu to install Linux in a Windows
>         XP

<snip>

> > OOops, sorry, I wanted to say that qemu-img.exe should be used instead of
> > other tools as it handles all images formats that QEMU supports and some
> > manipulations like AES encryption and compression.
> >
> > Fabrice.
> 
> Perhaps I could remove mkqemuimage from the windows installer now, move it
> in a subdir, or put some info about images in a Readme, so qemu-img is
> used preferably. You choose.
> I am not aware of frontends that use it, except for QEMUMenu.
> 
> About qemu-img.exe, it is not installed by default for windows build (?)

Does this mean QemuMenu.bat will default to using qemu-img.exe instead
of mkqemuimage.exe? At this point I'm just asking so I can create a
simple quickstart guide so that others with my needs can look at
documentation rather than bothering the Qemu-devel list as I've done.

Brett