Re: [Qemu-devel] using partition images

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Mon, 8 May 2006, Jim C. Brown wrote:

> I can't think of any disk format that's heavily used in qemu that is 
> normally used for partition images except for raw. OTOH it might be 
> interesting to have qcow partition images.

Well, you might argue it is not heavily used, but there is a disk mode in 
VVFAT, which emulates a floppy disk (an attempt to force the guest system 
to synchronize often). It contains it's own MBR emulation, of course, but 
there is no reason to keep it, once you have your scheme running.

Ciao,
Dscho