Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1415181] Re: Access raw partitions from Windows

[Sebastián Lacuesta]

Well, the tablet calls \\.\PhysicalDrive0 to the entire disk and
\\.\PhysicalDrive2 a mounted pendrive. Looking at disk administration,,
\\.\PhysicalDrive0 has the following partition schema:
- 2GB Recover partition
- 500M EFI partition
- 15,04 Windows C: Partition
- 6G Raw partition (no data, here is where I want to install linux)
- 5,46G Recover partition
The idea is to install a linux distro in the 6G partition, obviously I
wouldn't use the partition editor of the installer nor install a bootloader
in theese conditions. If I need to modify the partitions I would do in
advance from Windows, and for the booting I would use refind or grub, which
both work as I could test.

El Wed Jan 28 2015 at 4:40:48, Stefan Weil (<address@hidden>)
escribió:

> I am not sure whether I have understood your request completely. QEMU
> can access raw partitions if the OS supports them. MS Windows supports
> physical partitions and calls them \\.\PhysicalDrive0,
> \\.\PhysicalDrive1 and so on. Admin rights are required to access these
> devices. Depending on your shell, the backslashes might need to be
> escaped, or you will have to write //./PhysicalDrive0.
>
> Using raw partitions from QEMU can be really dangerous, so you should
> know what you are doing, overwise the result might be that your windows
> tablet no longer boots at all.
>
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Title:
  Access raw partitions from Windows

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  I'm using a windows tablet that makes imposible usb booting. It would be nice 
to have access to raw partitions in order to run linux installers using qemu. I 
can successfully install several boot loaders using uefi, so I gues this 
feature would be very helpful.
  Thanks!

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