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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Converting installed windows (or ?) partition to
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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