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On 2/15/07, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@enix.org> wrote:
> BTW, is there a reason why a disk image is required when using the
> -kernel option ?
>
> In the following case: -kernel vmlinuz -append "nfsroot=blabla", we
> could boot over the network, without the need for any disk image, but
> Qemu wants to have a disk image. Is it mandatory ?

On Linux, -hda /dev/zero works fine, so I'd say there's no reason a
disk image is necessary.

--Ed