[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] Creating a bootable qemu image from a root filesystem and bootloader 1. Create a hard disk image qemu-img create -f qcow <imagename.img> <size>G 2. Use a live CD (better to have a lighter OS like system rescue CD to make the process faster) and the image created to boot. qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom -hda <imagename.img> -boot d 3. Once system is booted use a partition editing tool (like fdisk, cfdisk, parted, gparted, qtparted ...) to partition the image. cfdisk create the necessary partitions (root and swap partitions boot, home ... if required) 4. Create a file system for the root partition mke2fs /dev/hda1 5. Mount the partition mkdir disk mount /dev/hda1 disk 6. Copy the file system from the host machine to the mounted directory (use a compressed file system to make the copying faster) Grab the GNU snapshot from ams' site <http://www.update.uu.se/~ams/home/slask/GNU/> scp <user>@<host>:<path to the compressed file system> disk 7. Uncompress the files cd disk tar -jxvf <compressed filesystem> 8. Unmount the mounted partition cd .. umount disk 9. power off the guest OS. poweroff 10. To make the file system bootable download a grub floppy image <http://hurd.in/pub/Hurd/HurdOnVMware/grub.img> 11. Run qemu to boot into your brand new system qemu -hda <hard disk image.img> -fda grub.img -boot a Happy Hacking !! Make your new system boot from the hard disk 1. Mount your grub image mkdir floppy mount -t ext2 -o loop grub.img floppy 2. Use previous steps 2 and 5 to boot from a liveCD and mount the partition cd disk/boot scp -r <user>@<host>:<path to mounted floppy image directory>/boot/grub 3. Poweroff the guest poweroff 4. Boot new system using floppy image previous step 11 use install to hard disk option if you used the above grub image or go to grub command line and type root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) Now you have a bootable system image. Enjoy Maadi !!