On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 10:27:29AM +0200, Dor Laor wrote: > On 01/03/2012 06:42 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote: > >On 01/02/2012 03:38 AM, Emanuel Rietveld wrote: > >>When you give qemu-kvm a partition to use as disk for a guest, it does > >>exactly that. It uses the partition as a disk for the guest. So, the > >>guest sees a *disk* while in the physical situation it's a *partition*. > >>You may be able to do what you want by attaching a whole disk to the > >>guest, instead of just the partition. > > > >I've often thought that it should be possible to cook something up with > >device manager -- essentially creating a "wrapper" that provides a MBR, > >etc. around a Windows logical volume or partition. Might be a fun > >project for someone. > > I'm sure its possible to do that but it may require some hack of > presenting a the original MBR as some type of shadow one for the > guest or other trick. Ric, have you played w/ it?
Xen used to synthesize an MBR in the guest. As Ian asked above, it's possible to do this with device-mapper too, although I doubt it's a good idea, but here's how you'd do it anyway: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/virt/2010-September/002288.html https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/technique-for-synthesizing-a-partition-table-on-a-naked-filesystem/ Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
