Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu disk on vfat

[Jim C. Brown]

On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 11:05:00PM +0100, Michael McConnell wrote:
> IIRC creating a "raw" QEMU disc image makes use of sparse files, a concept 
> not supported under FAT16/32.  A qcow disc image should work fine.  If you 
> want to create a raw disc image on a FAT partition, use (from your example)
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/partitions/windows0/qmeu-disk bs=1024 count=40960
> 
> It'll take a bit longer than qemu-img would but then it's having to write out 
> every block in the disc image to the real disc.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 

Here is a patch that fixes the raw block driver. It is able to detect when
creation of a sparse file failed and failback to using the dd method.

qemu-img works correctly with this patch.

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