From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 7 22:43:48 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E868016A46B for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2007 22:43:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from askbill@conducive.net) Received: from conducive.net (conducive.org [203.194.153.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABD0213C4B9 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2007 22:43:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from askbill@conducive.net) Received: from cm218-253-81-177.hkcable.com.hk ([218.253.81.177]:64749 helo=pb.local) by conducive.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Iptcb-000JlZ-C9 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:43:41 +0000 Message-ID: <47323F9D.80209@conducive.net> Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:43:41 -0500 From: =?UTF-8?B?6Z+T5a625qiZIEJpbGwgSGFja2Vy?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <200711072141.lA7LfEwH073891@saturn.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <200711072141.lA7LfEwH073891@saturn.kn-bremen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: using a raw disk for qemu image X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:43:49 -0000 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