[Sussex] Quick qemu question

[Gavin Stevens]

Hi Ronan,

On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 08:39:06 +0000
Ronan Chilvers <ronan at thelittledot.com> wrote:

> Hi Gavin
> 
> On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:14:58 +0000
> Gavin Stevens <starshine at gavmusic.uklinux.net> wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible to determine where on the hard drive this image will
> > be, or does it put itself somewhere of its own choosing? Sorry if
> > this sounds a bit thick - I just want my qemu experience to be safe.
> 
> The qemu-img program creates the image wherever you tell it.  So if
> you do
> 
> qemu-img create hda.img 2500M
> 
> you'll get a 2.5GB image called hda.img in the current directory.  You
> could as an alternative do
> 
> qemu-img create /home/gavin/QemuStuff/debian/mydebianimage.img
> 2500M
> 
> will create an image called mydebianimage.img
> in the directory /home/gavin/QemuStuff/debian/
> 
> I wouldn't worry about having an impact on your host system.  Qemu is
> very safe.  I use it to have a look at other distributions and for
> testing system upgrades etc safely.

Many thanks for all of this - exactly what I needed.

Now I shall be able to use qemu with confidence.

Gavin.