From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 12 21:48:23 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 3DB3C16A400 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:48:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@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 C70B113C461 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:48:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id m19so16327nfc for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:48:20 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=lZWJcpYJkwoMJQvdQgFXE1PEMV/tWAgISTvntj6STE9tUPp8xxUTEoItH23c7/qKT51WVSWLJjpr4DZ10DIJg8xfHxtQB9gLeWwil6EHuZJjBPwmmpW3bQQkMdHWPhba7Wl9NerdOYbhHKctse9Q/07ajwK6Yys2Xb9AlqE6Oxk= Received: by 10.82.113.6 with SMTP id l6mr10229377buc.1171316900220; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:48:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.175.1 with HTTP; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:48:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:48:19 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Jim Stapleton" In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20702120719n20b86b6ey33525c2f3f125737@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <80f4f2b20702120719n20b86b6ey33525c2f3f125737@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 21:48:23 -0000 On 12/02/07, Jim Stapleton wrote: > > Jim Stapleton wrote: . . . > > > 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? > > > . . . > > 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? I would suspect you hand it what winders would want to see, in this case /dev/ad8 or (maybe) /dev/ad8c. I expect that winders will not get along well with being handed a (pre-existing) slice and told it is a disk. -- --