Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:48:19 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: "Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: x86 emulators that can handle partition devices instead of slices. Message-ID: <d7195cff0702121348r7093f135nf3a85f2a7df0b385@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20702120719n20b86b6ey33525c2f3f125737@mail.gmail.com> References: <80f4f2b20702120719n20b86b6ey33525c2f3f125737@mail.gmail.com>
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On 12/02/07, Jim Stapleton <stapleton.41@gmail.com> 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. -- --
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