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mstrhelix
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Posted: Aug. 08 2005,16:22

>Barring that, it'd be nice if we could mount the .img files as >a virtual drive, or edit them as if they were .isos or .zips.....

Actually you can unpack ISO's with MagicISO, you can get it here: http://www.magiciso.com/download.htm

there is also instructions on the main page of magiciso.com.

after you edit the iso all you do is restart qemu with newiso.

lra

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Posted: Aug. 08 2005,21:43

but qemu's disk format are not iso images - been there, tried that!

it IS possible to mount (raw) images as a virtual drive in linux, so yes, you can get access to the files inside the image outside of qemu. haven't tried writing to inside the image though.

iirc:

mkdir /mnt/newmntpoint
mount -o loop /path/to/imagefile /mnt/newmntpoint

mstrhelix

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Posted: Aug. 14 2005,16:05

>but qemu's disk format are not iso images - been there, tried that!

You didn't try hard enough then cause i mount ISO images using Qemu every time i wanna test the ISO to see if it will work or not.
I have also booted dsl1.4.iso with Qemu with no problems at all.

qemu -hda image.iso

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