On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 02:28:50PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: > I discouvered QEMU today and I think it is an amazing program.
Indeed. Very usefull to check out other OS on your FreeBSD box.
> Just to be sure and on the safe site:
>
> Will the command "qemu -hda win98se.img -boot d -user-net" do as I
> think it will do: .. boot from my cdrom device so I can install windows
> from it to the win98se.img file?
You'll have to add '-cdrom /dev/cd0' (substitute your CD-ROM drive for
cd0). Alternatively, you can use an ISO image as CD-ROM.
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> On oszoo.org they say you can even create a compressed clone of the
> image file by giving this cmd: "qemu-img convert -f qcow -c win98se.img
> -O qcow image_compressed.img" but this does not work form me. The msg
> is that compression is not supproted for this format. Is this right? Or
> do I do something wrong?
I get the same. According to the qemu-img manual page, this command
should be formatted as
convert [-c] [-e] [-f fmt] filename [-O output_fmt] output_filename
but that doesn't work either; it just produces a help message.
Roland
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