Re: [Qemu-devel] block device loopback

2006-06-02 Thread NyOS
On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:08:56 +0200, s[e]th & h[o]lth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I'm a qemu user and I'm looking for a way to use my virtual target drive inside my host computer. I've created a file that I'll call hda.disk like this : "dd if=/dev/zer of= hda.disk count=1 bs=1M seek=1

Re: [Qemu-devel] block device loopback

2006-06-01 Thread Jim C. Brown
I'm working on something that does just this. I'm calling it vda (its based on lomount), and it provides access to vda, vda1, vda2, etc. I don't see why you are unable to use the disk image as is though. lomount and similar tools should be able to handle the job quite easily. On Thu, Jun 01, 2006

Re: [Qemu-devel] block device loopback

2006-06-01 Thread Paul Brook
> The aim of this driver is quite similar to the loop driver but instead of > "emulating" a partition, it emulates a IDE Hard Drive and give an access to > it via /dev/vdX and it's partition via /dev/vdXpY. > Perhaps you will wonder why i use the qemu's mailing-list for this problem > : - i don't k

[Qemu-devel] block device loopback

2006-06-01 Thread s[e]th & h[o]lth
Hello,I'm a qemu user and I'm looking for a way to use my virtual target drive inside my host computer. I've created a file that I'll call hda.disk like this : "dd if=/dev/zer of=hda.disk count=1 bs=1M seek=1023" and i use it like "qemu -hda hda.disk "The problem i meet is that i can't use this fi