On 05/19/2015 03:45 PM, King Beowulf wrote: > On Tuesday, May 19, 2015, John Yost <[email protected]> wrote: > >> After the last update to qemu I am getting the following warning: >> WARNING: Image format was not specified for '/mnt/build/buildvm' and >> probing guessed raw. >> Automatically detecting the format is dangerous for raw images, >> write operations on block 0 will be restricted. >> Specify the 'raw' format explicitly to remove the restrictions. >> >> Does anyone know where I should "Specify the 'raw' format"? >> >> I use this as my start command: >> [CODE] >> usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 \ >> -boot c \ >> -name build \ >> -cpu qemu64 \ >> -smp cores=2 \ >> -enable-kvm \ >> -m 16G \ >> -localtime \ >> -soundhw es1370 \ >> -cdrom >> /mnt/other/Slackware/slackware64-14.1-iso/slackware64-14.1-install-dvd.iso >> \ >> -usb \ >> -usbdevice host:0781:5581 \ >> -vga vmware \ >> -hda /mnt/build/buildvm >> [/CODE] >> >> TIA >> john >> >> >> > if "buildvm" is truly a raw image created with "qemu-img create" the just > rename it "buildvm.raw" > > also switch "-f raw" might be aplicable, check man page. i always use > qcow2 so i csn use its fancy features such ad copy on write. > > -ed > > > > > _______________________________________________ > SlackBuilds-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users > Archives - http://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ > FAQ - http://slackbuilds.org/faq/ >
Thanks King Beowulf Adding the file extension '.raw' works fine. When referencing the manual "http://qemu.weilnetz.de/qemu-doc.html"; I could not find anything tanks again john _______________________________________________ SlackBuilds-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archives - http://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ FAQ - http://slackbuilds.org/faq/
