> > Richard Braun, on Sat 20 Aug 2016 13:07:17 +0200, wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 01:19:28AM +0000, Horacio Castellini wrote: > > > WARNING: Image format was not specified for 'debian-hurd-20150320.img' > and probing guessed raw. > > > Automatically detecting the format is dangerous for raw images, write > operations on block 0 will be restricted. > > > Specify the 'raw' format explicitly to remove the restrictions. > > > > Check the integrity of the image you've downloaded. > No, that warning happens on correct images. It just means that qemu does > not dare touching the beginning of an image which was not asserted to be > a raw image. > Samuel
> I believe the fix is to add "format=raw" to the end of the line, like so: $ kvm -m 1G -drive file=$(echo debian-hurd*.img),cache=writeback,format=raw At least, this seemed to work for me. -- Kent West <")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com
