Re: [Qemu-devel] using partition images

[Jim C. Brown]

On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:11:36PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> > I'll work on this tonight. I've been thinking about doing this, since it
> > would allow one to use any qemu-supported disk image format as a partition
> > image.
> >
> > I can't think of any disk format that's heavily used in qemu that is
> > normally used for partition images except for raw. OTOH it might be
> > interesting to have qcow partition images.
> 
> If done properly this should also allow use of vmware split image files.
> 

It'd probably be easier to fix the vmdk driver to handle these natively.

If split vmdks are just a series of partition images plus an image of an
MBR/partition table then it may be possible to hack this up via a partition
driver that supported harddisk sharing (using multiple partition images as
part of the same hard disk).

> Paul
> 

-- 
Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty.
Infinite precision begets infinite perfection.