How to make a bootable hard disk image?

[horseriver]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 03:09:00PM +0700, Mulyadi Santosa wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 4:44 AM, horseriver <horserivers at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:51:36PM +0700, Mulyadi Santosa wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 2:52 AM, horseriver <horserivers at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > hi:)
> >> >
> >> >    I want to boot kernel from hard disk image ,because i am using a virtual machine .
> >> >    How to make this bootable image   ?
> >> >    After I  make it ,how do I put kernel Image into this image?
> >>
> >> If you are using qemu or kvm, you don't need to put the kernel inside
> >> the virtual machine image.
> >>
> >> Just use -kernel (or possibly -initrd) parameter and pass the path and
> >> file name of your kernel image and you're good to go.
> >
> >   The path?
> >   How to write the path? You mean the virtual machine can share physical
> >   hard disk with the host ,without its own hard disk image ?
> 
> assume your virtual disk image is in /tmp/guest.img.
> 
> Kernel is /tmp/kernel-image. Initrd is /tmp/initrd
> 
> Usually, I invoke it this way:
> qemu -kernel /tmp/kernel-image -initrd /tmp/initrd -hda /tmp/guest.img

  thanks!
  how does the /tmp/kernel-image made ?
  

> 
> Hope you got the idea....
> 
> 
> -- 
> regards,
> 
> Mulyadi Santosa
> Freelance Linux trainer and consultant
> 
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