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2010 Aug 23
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[PATCH] Change to using ext2-based, cached supermin appliance.
...passes the tests. There are some hacky bits right now: (1) We add the root -drive option last on the command line, then (in the initrd) reverse-search through the block devices, mounting the first one we find. Dan pointed out that we could name the drive using the qemu '-drive file=..,serial=LIBGUESTFSROOT' option, which would allow unambiguous identification. However there are other issues with this. (2) We take steps to ignore the new device from the point of view of the user, but I haven't rigorously gone through the whole API to check that the device is truly hidden everywhere. Rich....