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Commit ada4799a authored by Lennart Poettering's avatar Lennart Poettering
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nspawn: add support for limited dissecting of MBR disk images with nspawn

With this change nspawn's -i switch now can now make sense of MBR disk
images too - however only if there's only a single, bootable partition
of type 0x83 on the image. For all other cases we cannot really make
sense from the partition table alone.

The big benefit of this change is that upstream Fedora Cloud Images can
now be booted unmodified with systemd-nspawn:

 # wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/21/Cloud/Images/x86_64/Fedora-Cloud-Base-20141203-21.x86_64.raw.xz
 # unxz Fedora-Cloud-Base-20141203-21.x86_64.raw.xz
 # systemd-nspawn -i Fedora-Cloud-Base-20141203-21.x86_64.raw -b

Next stop: teach the import logic to automatically download these
images, uncompress and verify them.
parent 733d15ac
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