[Slackbuilds-users] QEMU

[John Yost]

On 05/19/2015 03:45 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 19, 2015, John Yost <alleytrotter at gmail.com> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
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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