Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:19:17 -0500 From: "Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: x86 emulators that can handle partition devices instead of slices. Message-ID: <80f4f2b20702120719n20b86b6ey33525c2f3f125737@mail.gmail.com>
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> 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 I figured that /should/ be teh case, but after my experience with Bochs and it being very confused, I figured I should just ask. So, then if the DOS parition is /dev/ad8s1, then I should be able to link it to /dev/ad8s1 in the config, or should I link it to /dev/ad8? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton
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