From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CTjxU-0004fM-2y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 11:44:04 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CTjxT-0004ev-A1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 11:44:03 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CTjxT-0004es-6a for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 11:44:03 -0500 Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CTjoe-0003zq-Qp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 11:34:57 -0500 Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CTjoe-0005J3-00 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:34:56 +0100 Received: from amarseille-206-1-11-195.w81-49.abo.wanadoo.fr ([81.49.159.195]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:34:56 +0100 Received: from daimon55 by amarseille-206-1-11-195.w81-49.abo.wanadoo.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:34:56 +0100 From: Ronald Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:34:51 +0100 Message-ID: References: <5100168789854548368@unknownmsgid> <4197D253.1050606@bellard.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: news Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Using Qemu to install Linux in a Windows XP Reply-To: daimon55@free.fr, qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Le Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:40:22 -0500, Brett Bonfield a écrit : > On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 22:46:59 +0100, Fabrice Bellard > 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.