Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:38:36 -0500 From: eculp <eculp@encontacto.net> To: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: qemu: could not open disk image /tmp/c.img that was created by qemu Message-ID: <20080605213836.115228l5veqj0qxw@intranet.encontacto.net> In-Reply-To: <200806052152.m55LqRlE089334@saturn.kn-bremen.de> References: <200806052152.m55LqRlE089334@saturn.kn-bremen.de>
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Quoting Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>: > In article <20080604122407.188217sdanmlq37k@intranet.encontacto.net> =20 > you write: >> I'm running amd64 current-8 and am up to date on most everything. >> >> I'm trying to give qemu a try and am using the quick start on the qemu >> site, step by step and got all the way to the second step ;) >> >> # qemu-img create -f qcow c.img 3G >> Formatting 'c.img', fmt=3Dqcow, size=3D3145728 kB >> >> # qemu -cdrom /dev/acd0 -hda /tmp/c.img -m 256 -boot d >> qemu: could not open disk image /tmp/c.img >> >> acd0 was an unmounted windowsXP installation CD. >> >> Should the procedure be changed for FreeBSD, I obviously assumed not? > > Hmm, seems the CVE 2008-0928 security patch broke qcow, or at least > new qcow images. qcow is also deprecated tho, you can just use qcow2 Hi Juergen, Bakul Shah suggested qcow2 yesterday and I was able to bring up xp =20 without problems. Now I just need to figure out the network and I'll =20 be in business. Thanks a lot for your help, ed > instead which still works. Or use raw images which should still be > faster, only they are sparse files which some backup software like > bsdtar doesn't know how to deal with properly. (dump still works tho, > as should gtar or star when passed appropriate flags.) > > I just checked, seems that patch also has been backed out from qemu svn > but no replacement committed since. Hmm... > > =09Juergen >
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