Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:43:41 -0500 From: =?UTF-8?B?6Z+T5a625qiZIEJpbGwgSGFja2Vy?= <askbill@conducive.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using a raw disk for qemu image Message-ID: <47323F9D.80209@conducive.net> In-Reply-To: <200711072141.lA7LfEwH073891@saturn.kn-bremen.de> References: <200711072141.lA7LfEwH073891@saturn.kn-bremen.de>
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Juergen Lock wrote: > In article <473016F5.80209@gmail.com> you write: >> I know this is not a FreeBSD question persay but if I have XP installed >> on an other drive and want to access it with qemu what is the command >> line for qemu of qemu-img to enable this... before anyone asks I am not >> using wine because it doesn't run on amd54 > > Well theoreticall that would be qemu -hda /dev/ad1 (or wherever that other > drive is), but in this case its unlikely to work since Windows doesn't > like hardware being changed under it (the hardware qemu emulates > most likely is different from the one your real system.) You can read > more about this topic in the freenode #qemu faq: > http://calamari.reverse-dns.net:980/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#head-bcc0d7a7641ec611dbe969aa9b8d433e2fc0b903 > > HTH, > Juergen The built-in Qemu smb tool might be less of a problem for WinWOES. *providing* you have (at least) one working Win 'machine' - that understands the same fs and all that - from which to 'map a network drive'. That at least doesn't trigger the 'new hardware found' cycle. We've used that to make changes to one problematic .img from another, or read files off a 'hardware' unit mounted mount_ntfs and exported to Qemu's smb daemon. HTH, Bill
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