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[Qemu-devel] Re: Building a disk image?
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Ronald |
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[Qemu-devel] Re: Building a disk image? |
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Mon, 04 Jul 2005 17:34:35 +0200 |
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Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) |
Le Sun, 03 Jul 2005 22:11:53 -0500, Matt Lawrence a écrit :
> I'm trying to figure out how to script the creation of disk images for
> qemu. I've already scripted file system creation with user-mode-linux, so
> once I can get the partitions created correctly, the rest should be easy.
> Right now, when I do a qemu-img create and run fdisk on the file, I get the
> message "You must set cylinders". So, how to I figure out what to set them
> to? And then, how do I convince mke2fs to create a filesystem in the
> partition? Or, am I attacking this problem from the wrong direction?
It's easier to use losetup to associate the image with a loop device ,
then create the partitions with your favorite tool.
Once the image is partitionned pass the offset option to losetup then
create swap or filesystems on /dev/loop?.
- [Qemu-devel] Building a disk image?, Matt Lawrence, 2005/07/03
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Building a disk image?,
Ronald <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Building a disk image?, Matt Lawrence, 2005/07/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Building a disk image?, Jim C. Brown, 2005/07/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Building a disk image?, Magnus Damm, 2005/07/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Building a disk image?, Jim C. Brown, 2005/07/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Building a disk image?, Magnus Damm, 2005/07/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Building a disk image?, Henrik Nordstrom, 2005/07/10