[Qemu-devel] Re: Using Qemu to install Linux in a Windows XP

[Ronald <look@reply.to>]

Le Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:40:22 -0500, Brett Bonfield a écrit :

> On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 22:46:59 +0100, Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
> wrote:
>> Brett Bonfield wrote:
>>  > [...]
>> > Also, would you consider making QEMUMenu.bat work with "dd for Win32"
>> > as well as it works with Zitu's program. dd for Win32 is available
>> > here: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite/dd.htm
>> >
>> > The advantage it has over mkqemuimage.exe is that it can make any size
>> > images, at least so far as I can tell. The logic John Newbigin emailed
>> > goes as follows:
>> 
>> Then why not fixing mkqemuimage.exe to do that too ?
>> 
>> Fabrice.
> 
> I hope I didn't offend anyone and I definitely didn't mean to imply that
> dd for Win32 was somehow better than mkqemuimage.exe. Honestly, I don't
> know anything about mkqemuimage--someone on the Mepis forum suggested
> using dd so I investigated how to do that on Windows. Is there a good
> reason to use mkqemuimage instead of dd for Win32? I have no idea how to
> adjust mkqemuimage so that it meets my needs, but if someone else wants to
> take on that project I suspect I'm one of many people who would be
> grateful.
> 
> Brett

Is there a particular reason to not use qemu-img.exe?
mkqemuimage is perhaps much simpler to use but have this 2G limit and only
output raw images.

Anyway this is a nice tool that have been created for making empty images
to use with qemu on windows instead of borrowing one from another project.