Rich,
On 2012-01-05 21:05, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
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.
Not possible in my situation - I want to be able to dual boot OR run
Windows 7 as a guest using the same partition install.
>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/
So if I understand this correctly - it IS possible to (easily) do what
I want with Xen but NOT kvm?
Thanks,
Phil.
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