From: "andrzej zaborowski" <balrogg@gmail.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: orion@cora.nwra.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Converting installed windows (or ?) partition to virtual machine image
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:03:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fb249edb0810101803p32a94cbajfaae6c791b33edd7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0810101413440.22125@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>
2008/10/10 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, orion@cora.nwra.com wrote:
>> It would be nice though to think about what it would take to do this
>> "right". Seems like you could source from a single partition and
>> generate the proper MBR and partition table in the virtual machine image
>> without too much trouble. A cursory glance seems to indicate that the
>> vvfat format does something like this.
>
> vvfat does something completely different. It takes an existing directory
> structure and simulates a VFAT partition from that, no matter what the
> original file system was.
It simulates a filesystem and it simulates a whole disk with a valid
partition table and one partition in it, so yes, it does what is
wanted and it shouldn't be hard to replace the part that simulates the
filesystem with an existing partition or file.
Cheers
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-11 1:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-10 2:41 [Qemu-devel] Converting installed windows (or ?) partition to virtual machine image orion
2008-10-10 12:26 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-11 1:03 ` andrzej zaborowski [this message]
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