Re: qemu image

[Marcus Brinkmann]

At Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:35:31 -0500 (EST),
Derek Davies <address@hidden> wrote:
> How can I make images of the hurd-l4 stuff for use with qemu?  Can I
> make an ext2 or iso fs image and use that or do I need to use network
> transfer and then dump the image from the qemu monitor?  Do I use some
> loopback trickery to install grub in that image?  How do I invoke qemu
> on the result?  I tried searching for this info to no avail.

There is nothing specific to Hurd-L4 in this question, you just need
to create images on which you install grub and a filesystem that grub
can access.

Personally, I use a somewhat more tricky setup, where I have a grub
boot floppy (pretty vanilla, created from the Debian package, but with
a network driver enabled), and then I have a single configuration file
which loads the real configuration file via tftp.  All files are also
downloaded via tftp.  All of this is on one machine, so I use a tunnel
device.  I don't use any hard drive image (although I have one).

Making floppy images is trivial, to create disk images you can use
scripts that are usually associated with bochs, I think.  But really,
there are a zillion ways, and your best bet is to check out the
options documented in the emulator community and just pick something
that suits your style (personally, I find hard disk images annoying to
use in Linux).

Thanks,
Marcus