Re: [Qemu-devel] disk images & driver geometry

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 03:09:19PM -0400, Christopher Friedt wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >I have no idea what you're talking about.  QEMU doesn't care whether you 
> >use a physical disk or a file.  It handles geometry the same way.
> >
> >Is there a concrete example that doesn't work that you think should?
> 
> Yes, a simple example is running CentOS after a typical install from a 
> hard disk image.
> 
> If Qemu is started with the installation cdrom (-cdrom CentOS-1of4*.iso) 
> the installation creates several partitions on the virtual disk, 
> including /boot, and a logical disk containing /. The first 512 Bytes of 
> the disk image are assumed to be the MBR of the disk, which is where the 
> installation will write the boot loader.
> 
> After installation, qemu is started with
> 
> qemu -hda centos.img -boot c

That scenario works just fine for me when I try it with either  RHEL-5
or Fedora Core 6 / 7. QEMU reads the MBR from the disk I pass with -hda, 
whether that's backed by a physical device, or a file backed disk & will
succesfully boot the OS.  I just followed the recommended partitioning
scheme that RHEL-5 installer suggests making no changes.

Dan.
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