Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] Remove requirement for -hda with -kernel

2005-05-01 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fabrice Bellard wrote: > > I like the idea, but your patch may not compile for win32. Maybe > creating a generic "dummy:[size]" block device would be interesting > instead ? > > Fabrice. > How about this? With this patch you can specify e.g. '-hda

Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] Remove requirement for -hda with -kernel

2005-04-28 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
Fabrice Bellard wrote: > > Ross Kendall Axe wrote: > >> The requirement to provide an -hda argument when doing a direct boot of >> a linux kernel has irritated me for some time. This patch removes that >> requirement by creating a temporary 1 sector hda as needed. >> >> Ross > > I like the idea,

Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] Remove requirement for -hda with -kernel

2005-04-28 Thread Fabrice Bellard
I like the idea, but your patch may not compile for win32. Maybe creating a generic "dummy:[size]" block device would be interesting instead ? Fabrice. Ross Kendall Axe wrote: The requirement to provide an -hda argument when doing a direct boot of a linux kernel has irritated me for some time.

[Qemu-devel] [patch] Remove requirement for -hda with -kernel

2005-04-26 Thread Ross Kendall Axe
The requirement to provide an -hda argument when doing a direct boot of a linux kernel has irritated me for some time. This patch removes that requirement by creating a temporary 1 sector hda as needed. Ross Index: hw/pc.c === RCS fi