[PetiteCloud] request for help: windows guest can't find disk on linux host under qemu

[Aryeh Friedman]

Now I guess the only question is to internalize this or not my gut says no
because it is a multistep process that can have obvious improvements made
at each step emphasizing different parts of how do such tasks... namely
this would be a good plugin (likely standard and default but still not a
part of PC it self)


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Michael Thoreson <m.thoreson at c4labs.ca>wrote:

> The disk image can still be raw but windows is going to need some sort of
> interface provided as to my knowledge there is no way to mount a raw image
> as a hard drive. The only other solution would be raw image --> ISCSI -->
> windows. Either way there is going to be something in the way.
>
> Michael Thoreson,
>
>
> On 06/03/2014 3:21 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
>
>> If that is true then it is a HUGE HUGE problem since we base our claim of
>> instance portability on everything being raw (except if it is /dev for
>> obvious reasons)  and ideas?
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Michael Thoreson <m.thoreson at c4labs.ca<mailto:
>> m.thoreson at c4labs.ca>> wrote:
>>
>>     This may help
>>
>>     http://superuser.com/questions/697141/how-can-i-
>> get-hard-drive-to-work-for-qemu-virtualized-windows-home-
>> server-2011/698751#698751
>>
>>     In summary it appears you have to specify IDE as the bus for
>>     Windows Guests.
>>
>>
>>     Michael Thoreson,
>>
>>
>>     On 06/03/2014 3:37 AM, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
>>
>>         Any ideas on the above?
>>
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