Re: [Qemu-devel] Using Qemu to install Linux in a Windows XP disk image

[Hermann-Josef Beckers/Kreis-Steinfurt]

Hi Brett,

> 
> I've been creating my disk image with the following command:
> 
> dd of=hd.img bs=1024 seek=3000000 count=0
> 
> The whole point of this exercise is to install SimplyMEPIS under Qemu
> without having to partition my hard drive and without damaging my
> existing install of WinXP. Is this what dd allows? Does Qemu support
> this goal?

have a look at http://www.bablokb.de/bochs-tools. It contains a tool
bxtcreate, which allows images greater than 2 gig. I have used it to
create an image of 10 gig (bzips down to just 1 KB) and installed 
MDK 10.1, Kanotix and SuSe in it using qemu.

Hth
hjb