Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Building a disk image?

[Henrik Nordstrom]

On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Magnus Damm wrote:

> And, another cool thing is that it comes with full source code. So
> people that want to tinker with it could download
> fsimage-0.1.2-guest-src.tar.gz and type configure, make and make
> install. Download from:
>
> http://www.smallworks.com/~jim/fsimage/

Personally I use e2fsimage for building ext2 images, and then dump the 
filesystem image at the desired offset in the drive image with dd.

But this is with raw images.

> Yep, as long as the tftp server path prefix thing gets sorted out then
> I think everything will be ok. But it depends on a bourne shell right
> now, maybe it is better to replace the shell script with c code that
> can be compiled for both *nix and windows.

cygwin or mingw both have good shells for windows users..

Regards
Henrik