Re: [Qemu-devel] disk images & driver geometry

2007-08-31 Thread Anthony Liguori
On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 15:09 -0400, Christopher Friedt wrote: > Anthony Liguori wrote: > > I have no idea what you're talking about. QEMU doesn't care whether you > > use a physical disk or a file. It handles geometry the same way. > > > > Is there a concrete example that doesn't work that you

Re: [Qemu-devel] disk images & driver geometry

2007-08-31 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 03:09:19PM -0400, Christopher Friedt wrote: > Anthony Liguori wrote: > >I have no idea what you're talking about. QEMU doesn't care whether you > >use a physical disk or a file. It handles geometry the same way. > > > >Is there a concrete example that doesn't work that yo

Re: [Qemu-devel] disk images & driver geometry

2007-08-31 Thread Christopher Friedt
Anthony Liguori wrote: I have no idea what you're talking about. QEMU doesn't care whether you use a physical disk or a file. It handles geometry the same way. Is there a concrete example that doesn't work that you think should? Yes, a simple example is running CentOS after a typical instal

Re: [Qemu-devel] disk images & driver geometry

2007-08-09 Thread Anthony Liguori
Christopher Friedt wrote: Hi everyone, has there been any work done in the last few months towards hard disk geometry, so that partition tables / mbr's in raw hard disk files can be stored for later use? That's something that would be tremendously useful with the -hda option, so that one co

Re: [Qemu-devel] disk images & driver geometry

2007-08-09 Thread Christopher Friedt
sorry, that subject should have read 'drive geometry' Christopher Friedt wrote: Hi everyone, has there been any work done in the last few months towards hard disk geometry, so that partition tables / mbr's in raw hard disk files can be stored for later use? That's something that would be tr

[Qemu-devel] disk images & driver geometry

2007-08-09 Thread Christopher Friedt
Hi everyone, has there been any work done in the last few months towards hard disk geometry, so that partition tables / mbr's in raw hard disk files can be stored for later use? That's something that would be tremendously useful with the -hda option, so that one could use a file for a virtua