I am not sure whether I have understood your request completely. QEMU can access raw partitions if the OS supports them. MS Windows supports physical partitions and calls them \\.\PhysicalDrive0, \\.\PhysicalDrive1 and so on. Admin rights are required to access these devices. Depending on your shell, the backslashes might need to be escaped, or you will have to write //./PhysicalDrive0.
Using raw partitions from QEMU can be really dangerous, so you should know what you are doing, overwise the result might be that your windows tablet no longer boots at all. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1415181 Title: Access raw partitions from Windows Status in QEMU: New Bug description: I'm using a windows tablet that makes imposible usb booting. It would be nice to have access to raw partitions in order to run linux installers using qemu. I can successfully install several boot loaders using uefi, so I gues this feature would be very helpful. Thanks! To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1415181/+subscriptions
