Re: [Qemu-devel] harddrives and QEMU

2005-10-06 Thread Brett (Mare) Henley
To Clerify since there are a lot of variables here I'll define the test bed I'm working with. I have 3 external ide drives. 12G, 6G and 4G. not a one has a dos partition on them. they were partitioned with fdisk and then had the os's installed on them. the 12G was a dd copy of the 6 gig with s

[Qemu-devel] Info on security

2005-10-06 Thread Matteo Zivieri
Hello everyone, I'm really new in qemu so I'm sorry if that's a OT. At the moment I'm involved in a project about a secure OS, based on linux, that should run from an usb memory stick. I would like to use qemu in order to avoid a reboot when I need to run my os. I need to know what occurs if the

Re: [Qemu-devel] harddrives and QEMU

2005-10-06 Thread Thomas Steffen
On 10/6/05, Karl Magdsick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I wrote:> In order to pass the "D drive" to qemu, and actually give QEMU access> to the entire raw HD, the "D drive" partition would have to fill the entire> HD, and MS Windows would have to make the MBR available as part > of the first (only, in

Re: [Qemu-devel] harddrives and QEMU

2005-10-06 Thread Karl Magdsick
I wrote: > In order to pass the "D drive" to qemu, and actually give QEMU access > to the entire raw HD, the "D drive" partition would have to fill the entire > HD, and MS Windows would have to make the MBR available as part > of the first (only, in this case) partition on the HD. Here I'm of cour

Re: [Qemu-devel] harddrives and QEMU

2005-10-06 Thread Jim C. Brown
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 06:15:09PM -0500, Brett Henley wrote: > Alright, but here's the rub. If a drive can be booted by a machine. Why > can't it boot from Qemu if it's accessing the raw disk via the windows > interface? This needs no messing with bios or disksize to boot of a > regular machine

Re: [Qemu-devel] harddrives and QEMU

2005-10-06 Thread Karl Magdsick
> > > Alright, but here's the rub. If a drive can be booted by a machine. Why > can't it boot from Qemu if it's accessing the raw disk via the windows > interface? This needs no messing with bios or disksize to boot of a > regular machine. > I hope someone else will chime in, but my guess is that