From: Michael Tokarev <1378407@bugs.launchpad.net>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1378407] Re: [feature request] Partition table wrapper for single-filesystem images
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 17:54:48 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141010175448.32318.86779.malone@gac.canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20141007151141.32185.92995.malonedeb@gac.canonical.com
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-10 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-07 15:11 [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1378407] [NEW] [feature request] Partition table wrapper for single-filesystem images felix
2014-10-10 17:54 ` Michael Tokarev [this message]
2017-10-25 15:20 ` [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1378407] " Thomas Huth
2021-04-22 4:02 ` Thomas Huth
2021-06-21 4:17 ` Launchpad Bug Tracker
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