"Jim C. Brown" >> Late last year, QEMU reworked the disk geometry, and that can confuse old >> disk images. The images expect an old style and the newer qemu offers a >> different geometry. > > No, the geometry reported by 0.7.0 (which sees the disk properly and can > mount > partition) and CVS (which can't see the partition table) are the same. >
Right... But most of the images on FreeOSZoo were done using the *old* version of qemu, where the geometry is different. That means the geometry on the images may not be what newer versions of qemu expect. That's why I was asking what the date of the image was. > For the record, images I've used since qemu 0.5.2 still work fine with > CVS. > (I only use raw images though.) That's good for you. But some don't. The ReactOS image is a case I tested myself. When I saw it reported on the qemu forum, it was small enough that I spent a few minutes downloading it to test it. And newer versions of qemu most definetly would not handle it. Older versions (before the geometry change) could, though. > Actually, the reason that linux-ppc.img broke was due to a hack for > darwin/ppc. I didn't know. But I did know that a lot of the images on there are older ones that may have problems like reactos did, which is why I said that somebody needed to actually test each one, just to make sure they still work. _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
