This option tells whether a hard disk should be partitioned or not. It
defaults to true and have the prime effect of preventing a master boot
record (MBR) to be initialized.

This is useful as some operating system (QNX, Rtems) don't
recognized FAT mounted disks (especially SD cards) if a MBR is present.

Signed-off-by: Clément Chigot <[email protected]>
---
 block/vvfat.c        | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
 qapi/block-core.json | 10 +++++++---
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/vvfat.c b/block/vvfat.c
index 814796d918..de6031db98 100644
--- a/block/vvfat.c
+++ b/block/vvfat.c
@@ -306,7 +306,8 @@ typedef struct BDRVVVFATState {
     array_t fat,directory,mapping;
     char volume_label[11];
 
-    uint32_t offset_to_bootsector; /* 0 for floppy, 0x3f for disk */
+    /* 0x3f for partitioned disk, 0x0 otherwise */
+    uint32_t offset_to_bootsector;
 
     unsigned int cluster_size;
     unsigned int sectors_per_cluster;
@@ -1082,6 +1083,12 @@ static QemuOptsList runtime_opts = {
             .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
             .help = "Make the image writable",
         },
+        {
+            .name = "partitioned",
+            .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
+            .def_value_str = "true",
+            .help = "Do not add a Master Boot Record on this disk",
+        },
         { /* end of list */ }
     },
 };
@@ -1092,6 +1099,7 @@ static void vvfat_parse_filename(const char *filename, 
QDict *options,
     int fat_type = 0;
     bool floppy = false;
     bool rw = false;
+    bool partitioned = true;
     int i;
 
     if (!strstart(filename, "fat:", NULL)) {
@@ -1116,6 +1124,10 @@ static void vvfat_parse_filename(const char *filename, 
QDict *options,
         rw = true;
     }
 
+    if (strstr(filename, ":unpartitioned:")) {
+        partitioned = false;
+    }
+
     /* Get the directory name without options */
     i = strrchr(filename, ':') - filename;
     assert(i >= 3);
@@ -1131,6 +1143,7 @@ static void vvfat_parse_filename(const char *filename, 
QDict *options,
     qdict_put_int(options, "fat-type", fat_type);
     qdict_put_bool(options, "floppy", floppy);
     qdict_put_bool(options, "rw", rw);
+    qdict_put_bool(options, "partitioned", partitioned);
 }
 
 static int vvfat_open(BlockDriverState *bs, QDict *options, int flags,
@@ -1196,7 +1209,10 @@ static int vvfat_open(BlockDriverState *bs, QDict 
*options, int flags,
         if (!s->fat_type) {
             s->fat_type = 16;
         }
-        s->offset_to_bootsector = 0x3f;
+        /* Reserver space for MBR */
+        if (qemu_opt_get_bool(opts, "partitioned", true)) {
+            s->offset_to_bootsector = 0x3f;
+        }
         cyls = s->fat_type == 12 ? 64 : 1024;
         heads = 16;
         secs = 63;
@@ -3246,6 +3262,7 @@ static const char *const vvfat_strong_runtime_opts[] = {
     "floppy",
     "label",
     "rw",
+    "partitioned",
 
     NULL
 };
diff --git a/qapi/block-core.json b/qapi/block-core.json
index b82af74256..8a479ba090 100644
--- a/qapi/block-core.json
+++ b/qapi/block-core.json
@@ -3464,8 +3464,8 @@
 #
 # @fat-type: FAT type: 12, 16 or 32
 #
-# @floppy: whether to export a floppy image (true) or partitioned hard
-#     disk (false; default)
+# @floppy: whether to export a floppy image (true) or hard disk
+#     (false; default)
 #
 # @label: set the volume label, limited to 11 bytes.  FAT16 and FAT32
 #     traditionally have some restrictions on labels, which are
@@ -3474,11 +3474,15 @@
 #
 # @rw: whether to allow write operations (default: false)
 #
+# @partitioned: whether a hard disk will be partitioned
+#     (default: true)
+#     (since 10.2)
+#
 # Since: 2.9
 ##
 { 'struct': 'BlockdevOptionsVVFAT',
   'data': { 'dir': 'str', '*fat-type': 'int', '*floppy': 'bool',
-            '*label': 'str', '*rw': 'bool' } }
+            '*label': 'str', '*rw': 'bool', '*partitioned': 'bool' } }
 
 ##
 # @BlockdevOptionsGenericFormat:
-- 
2.43.0


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