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Does anyone know if it's possible to point qemu at an existing partition, rather than a virtual machine file? If i were to do something like:
Code:
qemu -hda /dev/hdb9 ...
- 03-03-2006 #1Linux User
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Qemu query
Does anyone know if it's possible to point qemu at an existing partition, rather than a virtual machine file? If i were to do something like:
Code:qemu -hda /dev/hdb9 -cdrom /dev/dvd -boot d -m 256
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- 03-03-2006 #2Linux Guru
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Yep it should work fine. I have done it, or rather watched someone do it in the past. Make sure you use the kernel acceleration module else it will be slooooow.
- 03-03-2006 #3Linux Engineer
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Yeah, it works - at least it does for livecd's. But remember, not -hda /dev/hdb9 but -hda /dev/hdb
you may also have to be root, depending on the permissions of /dev/hdb.
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