Mr Roooster wrote: > It does seem to be possible to boot QEMU off the host disk under Linux > (by pointing it at the block device rather than a partition), but you > could really set yourself up for problems. (Qemu writing to the wrong > bit of your disk may end badly. :D )
And all but the most recent versions of qemu really do have a nasty habit of accessing the wrong part of the disk when running NetBSD guests, because of a bug that was finally fixed in this commit: https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/46e018e9b741731842b93ce23a86fad60445969b This has bitten me several times when booting NetBSD in qemu directly from a physical disk. The bug is not actually specific to physical disks - it affects any disk of size >= 128 GiB, but in practice it tends to hit physical disks because they are more likely to be of that size. -- Andreas Gustafsson, g...@gson.org
