[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1378407] Re: [feature request] Partition table wrapper for single-filesystem images

[Michael Tokarev]

This is a rather specific use case.  Note that linux can use
partitionless diskspace just fine, and depending on the bootmanager, one
can use single partition as a virtual disk to boot linux too (syslinux
supports this mode for one).  Implementing this feature in qemu does not
make much sense to me, unless it is a generic block device remapper like
dm in kernel, which is rather complex.  FWIW.

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Title:
  [feature request] Partition table wrapper for single-filesystem images

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  Suppose you have a single filesystem image. It would be nice if QEMU
  could generate a virtual partition table for it and make it available
  to the guest as a partitioned disk. Otherwise you have to use
  workarounds like this:
  
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU#Simulate_virtual_disk_with_MBR_using_linear_RAID

  It should be relatively easy to do on top of existing vvfat code.

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