Re: [Qemu-devel] boot from "live cd" in qemu ?

[Jim C. Brown]

On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 08:18:33PM +0200, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 02:13:45PM -0400, jmf wrote:
> 
> > qemu allows the user to set it's emulated "devices" to arbitrary files or 
> > real devices so I tried to set the cdrom, or an iso image, to fda or hda 
> > but this did not work:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > $ qemu -hda /dev/cdrom
> > 
> > $ qemu -hda livecd.iso
> 
> Try:
> 
> $ touch temp_hda_image
> $ qemu -hda temp_hda_image -cdrom /dev/cdrom -boot d
> 

You don't need the "-hda temp_hda_image" part.

$ qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom -boot d

would suffice.

> 
> --L
> 
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