http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537082 Summary: qemu-kvm: support enabling individual partitions Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Milestone 6 Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: Xen AssignedTo: jdouglas@novell.com ReportedBy: estellnb@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux) KHTML/3.5.10 (like Gecko) SUSE It happens quite often that a user wants to boot another OS-installation instantaneously. f.i. I have installed Suse and Debian and want to boot Debian from Suse or vice versa (more often: boot elder Suse installation to confer user settings). Unfortunately it is only possible to free a whole disk not individual partitions by qemu-kvm so that qemu-kvm can only be used with os-installations set up explicitly for the usage as vm. Xen on the other hand allows freeing individual partitions but does regrettably not pose an alternative for desktop users since it has no power save features (s2ram crashes at me, s2disk not supported at all). Vmbox is no alternative since a second OS installation will usually be of 64bit. Vmware on the other hand is no free virtualisation tech.. Why not allow a qemu-kvm vm the access just of certain partitions of a hdd? It should not be too hard to do but would greatly enhance its functionality! Reproducible: Always -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.