Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 899143] [NEW] Raw img not recognized by Windows

[Vincent Autefage]

Ok thanks a lot :)

Vincent Autefage
Le 03/12/2011 19:45, Stefan Hajnoczi a écrit :
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Vincent Autefage
> <address@hidden>  wrote:
>> $ qemu-img create -f raw root.img 100GB
>> $ mkntfs -F root.img
>> $ qemu -name W -sdl -m 2048 -enable-kvm -localtime -k fr -hda root.img
>> -cdrom windows7.iso -boot d -net nic,macaddr=a0:00:00:00:00:01 -net
>> user,vlan=0
> QEMU does recognize the raw image.  You can check this by running
> 'info block' at the QEMU monitor (Ctrl-Alt-2) and you'll see ide-hd0
> is the raw image file you specified.  Press Ctrl-Alt-1 to get back to
> the VM display.
>
> The problem is that the Windows installer does not like the disk image
> you have prepared.  A normal harddisk has a master boot record but you
> created a raw image without a master boot record.  The Windows
> installer is being picky/careful and not displaying this non-standard
> disk you created.
>
> Skip the mkntfs step and the installer works fine.  There's no need to
> create the file system because the installer will do it for you.
>
> Stefan
>

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Title:
  Raw img not recognized by Windows

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  Hi,

  The installation process of Windows (XP/Vista/7) doesn’t seem to recognize a 
raw img generated by qemu-img.
  The installer does not see any hard drive...

  The problem exists only with a raw img but not with a vmdk for
  instance.

  Thanks

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