x86 emulators that can handle partition devices instead of slices.

2007-02-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
I have two hard drives in my machine (ad8, ad10), ad10 is the system disk, ad8 has a few GB of swap at the end and 2 fat32 partitions. Mostly I'm using the fat partitions for a windows install to use as the base for WINE, but occasionally I'll want to install software, or run something directly

Re: x86 emulators that can handle partition devices instead of slices.

2007-02-12 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jim Stapleton wrote: I have two hard drives in my machine (ad8, ad10), ad10 is the system disk, ad8 has a few GB of swap at the end and 2 fat32 partitions. Mostly I'm using the fat partitions for a windows install to use as the base for WINE, but occasionally I'll want to install software, or

Re: x86 emulators that can handle partition devices instead of slices.

2007-02-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
Jim Stapleton wrote: I have two hard drives in my machine (ad8, ad10), ad10 is the system disk, ad8 has a few GB of swap at the end and 2 fat32 partitions. Mostly I'm using the fat partitions for a windows install to use as the base for WINE, but occasionally I'll want to install software, or

Re: x86 emulators that can handle partition devices instead of slices.

2007-02-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 12/02/07, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: . . . Is it possible to set up an emulator to either use /dev/ad8 or /dev/ad8s1, could I give it a CD device (only when on) as well? . . . Jim, Emulators (at least vmware, qemu) should treat partitions