Jim Stapleton wrote: > I have two hard drives in my machine (ad8, ad10), ad10 is the system > disk, ad8 has a few GB of swap at the end and 2 fat32 partitions. > Mostly I'm using the fat partitions for a windows install to use as > the base for WINE, but occasionally I'll want to install software, or > run something directly in Windows. In these cases it'd be nice not to > have to reboot. Is it possible to set up an emulator to either use > /dev/ad8 or /dev/ad8s1, could I give it a CD device (only when on) as > well? > > I found that the former was not possible in Bochs, and I read some > stuff on QEmu in the logs, so I figured I'd ask here before I put a > lot of time into it (i.e. I'll try with no response or some "I don't > knows", but if I get a "can't be done", then I won't waste my time). > > Thank you, > -Jim StapletonJim, Emulators (at least vmware, qemu) should treat partitions transparently. I don't think that they can understand BSD slices as there isn't an option to load or read BSD slices in the config section of the emulators I've used IIRC. Cheers, -Garrett
I figured that /should/ be teh case, but after my experience with Bochs and it being very confused, I figured I should just ask. So, then if the DOS parition is /dev/ad8s1, then I should be able to link it to /dev/ad8s1 in the config, or should I link it to /dev/ad8? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
