#375 Ignore size of disk image

[Anonymous]

bochs rocks. i just saved hours of debugging thanks to
the great debugger.

but i use both virtual pc and bochs. it would be nice
if there was a way to share the same disk image between
the two programs.

there's no need to create a conversion application or
to write a .vhd-reader. virtual pc stores it's special
data at the end of the file. therefore it's possible to
mount the image in bochs, if you cut that stuff off at
the end. if you don't truncate the file, bochs will
panic because the file size doesn't match the specified
settings.

would be cool if there was an option like
"ignore-not-matching-image-size-because-you-know-what-you're-doing".
or something like that :)

simon felix
de@iru.ch

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Logged In: NO

Take a look at discussion on bug #1824189.
Bochs will panic but you should be able to make it continue.

• Sebastian

[Stanislav Shwartsman]

Hi Volker,

An option to disk image like sizecheck=0 to ignore the size is good idea anyway and should be simple to implement.

By default use sizecheck=1, you can also define set of conditions when you can't ignore the size check for some reason.

Thanks,
Stanislav

[Stanislav Shwartsman]

Assign to new 'Disk Image' category

[Volker Ruppert]

In Bochs 2.5 it only panics if the specified geometry does not fit on the image. Extra data outside of the CHS space only generates an info message.

[Volker Ruppert]

Since the vpc format is supported in Bochs 2.6, this item can be treated as fixed.