Package: wnpp
Version: 1.7.7; issued 2013-08-23
Subject: ITP: confinedrv -- set up a virtual drive with confined access
rights
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : confinedrv
Version : 1.7.7
Upstream Author : Elmar Stellnberger <estel...@elstel.org>
* URL : http://www.elstel.org/qemu
* License : C-FSL v1.0; see for the program header or run the program
with --license
Description : This utility allows you to limit existing partitions to
read only, no-read access or you can err/zero them out while creating an
own virtual drive with confined access rights mirroring the original.
Replacing the master boot record as well as individual partitions by
image files is also supported. This can f.i. be used by a virtual
machine to safely boot into one or more operating systems that reside on
the same disk as your host operating system. The documentation will tell
you how to use that with qemu or qemu-kvm.
--
confinedrv is a cute little program making use of device-mapper that has
proven useful in many situations.
Whether you have a dual boot environment with Windows or just prefer to
really boot one of your Linux or BSD installations on hard disk with
qemu rather than just using xchroot this little program will come to the
rescue. The original idea behind writing this program was to analyse a
cracked system on disk safely after installing a fresh system into a
free partition. As confinedrv does also allow you to backup the MBR this
program allows you to fully move an existing installation into a virtual
machine while keeping things safe by restricting access rights to other
partitions and the MBR.
