Re: [Qemu-discuss] Running a Linux system both boot and within Windows

[Tim Fletcher]

On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 18:03 +1030, Ian Simcock wrote:
> Greetings all.
> 
> I hope this isn't an inappropriate question to post here but I've been 
> searching for ages and can't find if what I want to do is possible or not.
> 
> I have a USB flash drive and what I want to do is set it up so that -
> 1) If I boot a PC off it I get a Debian Linux system.
> 2) If I use it under windows I can use QEMU to start up the same Linux 
> system.
> 3) Keep the majority of the drive formatted in a windows format to make 
> it easy to transfer data.
> 
> I have no trouble seeing how to do item 1 or item 2, but I have not been 
> able to find anything documenting that it's possible to do both.
> 
> If anyone can point me to something that explains how to do it, or can 
> confirm that it can't be done, I'd appreciate it.

Partition the disk to have a few gig of linux at the end of it, and then
use syslinux to boot the drive directly from bios and in qemu just
attach it as a raw disk.

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Tim Fletcher <address@hidden>