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From: | Charles Duffy |
Subject: | [Qemu-devel] Re: Creating a (resizable) image which will hold Windows XP |
Date: | Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:35:24 -0500 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) |
Allen Meyers wrote:
address@hidden:~$ qemu-img create -f qcow /path/to/xp.cow 1300M bash: qemu-img: command not found
First, your qemu isn't installed correctly -- modern versions of the package will also include a "qemu-img" utility, which the command line you gave relies on.
Second -- don't use qcow for anything, as it's long-undeveloped and generally not well supported; use qcow2 in its place if you must -- or, if the only feature you care about is that the file grows only as you add contents to the VM, consider a sparse raw file, which will have better reliability and performance; these can be created by standard UNIX tools such as dd.
HOWTO: Install Windows XP in Debian using QEMU
I'm unfamiliar with this HOWTO you're following. Did you include a link to it anywhere in your email? Is it maintained by any qemu developer, or someone else (such as Debian's documentation team)? If the latter, bugs in such documentation should be brought up with whoever maintains it.
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