From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 12 15:19:19 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 BCDD316A407 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:19:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.184]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FD9013C4B9 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:19:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id m19so1986185nfc for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:19:18 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=WuwjhtDnIqnH+BgTtj/X7JoC4xvK0SVX5OhmLvTq9pNe9NtUJLAVt5S0bdfs7WXA98G9z6ZqCCh1VrV0ufiwrD28qJpk+9nPeUzjGp+J3yjT7RXpgsFbRZk7Ei6Gikh1IYMGV+5u0B+8b1mVSslYlM4wJAT860sm4K/VNReLmUo= Received: by 10.82.148.7 with SMTP id v7mr13739465bud.1171293557319; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:19:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.191.16 with HTTP; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:19:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <80f4f2b20702120719n20b86b6ey33525c2f3f125737@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:19:17 -0500 From: "Jim Stapleton" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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 15:19:19 -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 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