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[Qemu-devel] Re: Using Qemu to install Linux in a Windows XP
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Anand Kumria |
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[Qemu-devel] Re: Using Qemu to install Linux in a Windows XP |
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Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:52:35 +1100 |
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Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux)) |
On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 16:41:42 -0500, Brett Bonfield wrote:
> Also, would you consider making QEMUMenu.bat work with "dd for Win32" as
> well as it works with Zitu's program. dd for Win32 is available here:
> http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite/dd.htm
>
> The advantage it has over mkqemuimage.exe is that it can make any size
> images, at least so far as I can tell. The logic John Newbigin emailed
> goes as follows:
>
> - - -
>
> "The requirement is to create a big empty file which can be presented as a
> harddisk. Under linux I would do this like this: dd if=/dev/zero
> of=myfile.img bs=1024k count=3000 This will give you 3000Meg.
>
> The file will be 'initialised' with \000s. It is possible to create a
> sparse file which is 'hollow' and will be allocated when you write to it.
> That can cause problems with some programs though so it is best to avoid
> that unless you know it works.
>
> Windows does not share the philosophy which makes that kind of command
> possible.
>
> Under windows, sparse files are not supported so we can use the dd tool in
> a different way. If you write anything to a large offset (say 3Gig) then
> all the space before that will be allocated.
That isn't true. Under Windows, use the mksparse command.
Not all filesystems have to support sparse files but NTFS (and perhaps
ext2/ext3 one day under Windows?) does.
<URL: http://www.insidewindows.info/mksparse.zip>
Cheers,
Anand
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- [Qemu-devel] Re: Using Qemu to install Linux in a Windows XP, Brett Bonfield, 2004/11/13
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Using Qemu to install Linux in a Windows XP, Brett Bonfield, 2004/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Using Qemu to install Linux in a Windows XP, Fabrice Bellard, 2004/11/14
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Using Qemu to install Linux in a Windows XP, Brett Bonfield, 2004/11/15
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Using Qemu to install Linux in a Windows XP, Ronald, 2004/11/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Using Qemu to install Linux in a Windows XP, Fabrice Bellard, 2004/11/15
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Re: Using Qemu to install Linux in a Windows XP, Ronald, 2004/11/15
[Qemu-devel] Re: Using Qemu to install Linux in a Windows XP, Ronald, 2004/11/14
[Qemu-devel] Re: Using Qemu to install Linux in a Windows XP,
Anand Kumria <=
[Qemu-devel] Re: Using Qemu to install Linux in a Windows XP, Brett Bonfield, 2004/11/15