[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1378407] [NEW] [feature request] Partition table wrapper for single-filesystem images

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1378407] [NEW] [feature request] Partition table wrapper for single-filesystem images

[felix]

Public bug reported:

Suppose you have a single filesystem image. It would be nice if QEMU
could generate a virtual partition table for it and make it available to
the guest as a partitioned disk. Otherwise you have to use workarounds
like this:
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU#Simulate_virtual_disk_with_MBR_using_linear_RAID

It should be relatively easy to do on top of existing vvfat code.

** Affects: qemu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  [feature request] Partition table wrapper for single-filesystem images

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  Suppose you have a single filesystem image. It would be nice if QEMU
  could generate a virtual partition table for it and make it available
  to the guest as a partitioned disk. Otherwise you have to use
  workarounds like this:
  wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU#Simulate_virtual_disk_with_MBR_using_linear_RAID

  It should be relatively easy to do on top of existing vvfat code.

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[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1378407] Re: [feature request] Partition table wrapper for single-filesystem images

[Michael Tokarev]

This is a rather specific use case.  Note that linux can use
partitionless diskspace just fine, and depending on the bootmanager, one
can use single partition as a virtual disk to boot linux too (syslinux
supports this mode for one).  Implementing this feature in qemu does not
make much sense to me, unless it is a generic block device remapper like
dm in kernel, which is rather complex.  FWIW.

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Title:
  [feature request] Partition table wrapper for single-filesystem images

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  Suppose you have a single filesystem image. It would be nice if QEMU
  could generate a virtual partition table for it and make it available
  to the guest as a partitioned disk. Otherwise you have to use
  workarounds like this:
  wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU#Simulate_virtual_disk_with_MBR_using_linear_RAID

  It should be relatively easy to do on top of existing vvfat code.

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[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1378407] Re: [feature request] Partition table wrapper for single-filesystem images

[Thomas Huth]

** Changed in: qemu
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

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Title:
  [feature request] Partition table wrapper for single-filesystem images

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  Suppose you have a single filesystem image. It would be nice if QEMU
  could generate a virtual partition table for it and make it available
  to the guest as a partitioned disk. Otherwise you have to use
  workarounds like this:
  wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU#Simulate_virtual_disk_with_MBR_using_linear_RAID

  It should be relatively easy to do on top of existing vvfat code.

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[Bug 1378407] Re: [feature request] Partition table wrapper for single-filesystem images

[Thomas Huth]

The QEMU project is currently considering to move its bug tracking to another system. For this we need to know which bugs are still valid and which could be closed already. Thus we are setting older bugs to "Incomplete" now.
If you still think this bug report here is valid, then please switch the state back to "New" within the next 60 days, otherwise this report will be marked as "Expired". Or mark it as "Fix Released" if the problem has been solved with a newer version of QEMU already. Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience.


** Changed in: qemu
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  [feature request] Partition table wrapper for single-filesystem images

Status in QEMU:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Suppose you have a single filesystem image. It would be nice if QEMU
  could generate a virtual partition table for it and make it available
  to the guest as a partitioned disk. Otherwise you have to use
  workarounds like this:
  wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU#Simulate_virtual_disk_with_MBR_using_linear_RAID

  It should be relatively easy to do on top of existing vvfat code.

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[Bug 1378407] Re: [feature request] Partition table wrapper for single-filesystem images

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

[Expired for QEMU because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

** Changed in: qemu
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  [feature request] Partition table wrapper for single-filesystem images

Status in QEMU:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Suppose you have a single filesystem image. It would be nice if QEMU
  could generate a virtual partition table for it and make it available
  to the guest as a partitioned disk. Otherwise you have to use
  workarounds like this:
  wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU#Simulate_virtual_disk_with_MBR_using_linear_RAID

  It should be relatively easy to do on top of existing vvfat code.

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