From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33378) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XceUz-0003x0-7G for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:01:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XceUt-00056i-Tj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:01:05 -0400 Received: from indium.canonical.com ([91.189.90.7]:53819) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XceUt-00056Q-O2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:00:59 -0400 Received: from loganberry.canonical.com ([91.189.90.37]) by indium.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76 #1 (Debian)) id 1XceUs-00069V-LR for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 18:00:58 +0000 Received: from loganberry.canonical.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by loganberry.canonical.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E8A32E80C2 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 18:00:58 +0000 (UTC) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 17:54:48 -0000 From: Michael Tokarev <1378407@bugs.launchpad.net> Sender: bounces@canonical.com References: <20141007151141.32185.92995.malonedeb@gac.canonical.com> Message-Id: <20141010175448.32318.86779.malone@gac.canonical.com> Errors-To: bounces@canonical.com Subject: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1378407] Re: [feature request] Partition table wrapper for single-filesystem images Reply-To: Bug 1378407 <1378407@bugs.launchpad.net> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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. -- = You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1378407 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_li= near_RAID It should be relatively easy to do on top of existing vvfat code. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1378407/+subscriptions