From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 12 15:03:22 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D519016A407 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:03:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout4.cac.washington.edu (mxout4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1EC013C4A3 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:03:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.141] (may be forged)) by mxout4.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.09) with ESMTP id l1CF3MVe025862 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:03:22 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.10.41] (c-67-187-172-183.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.187.172.183]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.09) with ESMTP id l1CF3L3k003440 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:03:21 -0800 Message-ID: <45D081B6.8030300@u.washington.edu> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:03:18 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070122) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <80f4f2b20702120558i16c3d2f6uea724380647bdfc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20702120558i16c3d2f6uea724380647bdfc@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.3.0.289146, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.0.283055, Antispam-Data: 2007.2.12.65433 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Subject: Re: x86 emulators that can handle partition devices instead of slices. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:03:22 -0000 Jim Stapleton wrote: > I have two hard drives in my machine (ad8, ad10), ad10 is the system > disk, ad8 has a few GB of swap at the end and 2 fat32 partitions. > Mostly I'm using the fat partitions for a windows install to use as > the base for WINE, but occasionally I'll want to install software, or > run something directly in Windows. In these cases it'd be nice not to > have to reboot. Is it possible to set up an emulator to either use > /dev/ad8 or /dev/ad8s1, could I give it a CD device (only when on) as > well? > > I found that the former was not possible in Bochs, and I read some > stuff on QEmu in the logs, so I figured I'd ask here before I put a > lot of time into it (i.e. I'll try with no response or some "I don't > knows", but if I get a "can't be done", then I won't waste my time). > > Thank you, > -Jim Stapleton Jim, Emulators (at least vmware, qemu) should treat partitions transparently. I don't think that they can understand BSD slices as there isn't an option to load or read BSD slices in the config section of the emulators I've used IIRC. Cheers, -Garrett