[feature request] Partition table wrapper for single-filesystem images

[felix]

Suppose you have a single filesystem image. It would be nice if QEMU could generate a virtual partition table for it and make it available to the guest as a partitioned disk. Otherwise you have to use workarounds like this: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU#Simulate_virtual_disk_with_MBR_using_linear_RAID

It should be relatively easy to do on top of existing vvfat code.

[Michael Tokarev (mjt+launchpad-tls)]

This is a rather specific use case. Note that linux can use partitionless diskspace just fine, and depending on the bootmanager, one can use single partition as a virtual disk to boot linux too (syslinux supports this mode for one). Implementing this feature in qemu does not make much sense to me, unless it is a generic block device remapper like dm in kernel, which is rather complex. FWIW.

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