On Monday 08 May 2006 15:19, Jim C. Brown wrote: > On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:11:36PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote: > > > I'll work on this tonight. I've been thinking about doing this, since > > > it would allow one to use any qemu-supported disk image format as a > > > partition image. > > > > > > I can't think of any disk format that's heavily used in qemu that is > > > normally used for partition images except for raw. OTOH it might be > > > interesting to have qcow partition images. > > > > If done properly this should also allow use of vmware split image files. > > It'd probably be easier to fix the vmdk driver to handle these natively. > > If split vmdks are just a series of partition images plus an image of an > MBR/partition table then it may be possible to hack this up via a partition > driver that supported harddisk sharing (using multiple partition images as > part of the same hard disk).
I think you should be aiming for a generic composite device block driver. Then write a fake MBR block device (or whatever you want to call it). To use a single partition you create a composite device consisting of the fake mbr and the raw partition. A vmware split image file is just a composite of several raw images with a funny config file. Paul _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
