On 2/28/06, Star King of the Grape Trees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>Using /dev/hda in qemu while you have partitions on that hard drive > >>mounted and running linux just gives me the cringes. > >> > >> > >> > >perhaps i did not understand correctly what Bellard was intented to say... > >sorry, maybe you're right > > > That should actually work, provided you're using COW (or QCOW) discs, > but it still gives me cringes. > well, actually in a qemu devoted post they adviced me to use the existing windows partition as the img file for qemu... i mean that it could be also a viable idea, not using the original partition directly but as a base-device for a qemu-img, this way i will not write changes resulting from hardware differences directly to the windows partition, only after synchronization in qemu's monitor (or whatever the correct term is)
perhaps this is still a fringe to you... :) -- roberto OS: GNU/Linux, Debian Sarge qemu: 0.6.1
