Re: [Qemu-devel] copy benchmarks onto qemu

[Xin Tong]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 4:38 AM, Kevin Wolf <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am 22.04.2012 18:37, schrieb Xin Tong:
>> i have an OS image that does not have network drivers. are there any
>> other ways to copy a benchmark onto the os image ?
>
> If it is a raw image you can use kpartx to get block devices on the host
> that you can use for mounting the guest file system on the host (the
> guest must not be running, of course).
>
> If it is some image format, you can try qemu-nbd and attaching the image
> to the host by using an NBD client.
>
> Or maybe the easiest way is to just create an ISO image and pass that as
> a CD-ROM to the guest.

I am not too sure what you mean by raw image. what i have is an *.img
file that is bootable by QEMU. will kpartx  work ?
>
> Kevin