[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1415181] Re: Access raw partitions from Windows

[Stefan Weil]

I am not sure whether I have understood your request completely. QEMU
can access raw partitions if the OS supports them. MS Windows supports
physical partitions and calls them \\.\PhysicalDrive0,
\\.\PhysicalDrive1 and so on. Admin rights are required to access these
devices. Depending on your shell, the backslashes might need to be
escaped, or you will have to write //./PhysicalDrive0.

Using raw partitions from QEMU can be really dangerous, so you should
know what you are doing, overwise the result might be that your windows
tablet no longer boots at all.

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Title:
  Access raw partitions from Windows

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  I'm using a windows tablet that makes imposible usb booting. It would be nice 
to have access to raw partitions in order to run linux installers using qemu. I 
can successfully install several boot loaders using uefi, so I gues this 
feature would be very helpful.
  Thanks!

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