Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 899143] [NEW] Raw img not recognized by Windows

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Vincent Autefage
<address@hidden> wrote:
> $ qemu-img create -f raw root.img 100GB
> $ mkntfs -F root.img
> $ qemu -name W -sdl -m 2048 -enable-kvm -localtime -k fr -hda root.img
> -cdrom windows7.iso -boot d -net nic,macaddr=a0:00:00:00:00:01 -net
> user,vlan=0

QEMU does recognize the raw image.  You can check this by running
'info block' at the QEMU monitor (Ctrl-Alt-2) and you'll see ide-hd0
is the raw image file you specified.  Press Ctrl-Alt-1 to get back to
the VM display.

The problem is that the Windows installer does not like the disk image
you have prepared.  A normal harddisk has a master boot record but you
created a raw image without a master boot record.  The Windows
installer is being picky/careful and not displaying this non-standard
disk you created.

Skip the mkntfs step and the installer works fine.  There's no need to
create the file system because the installer will do it for you.

Stefan