Re: [Libguestfs] windows xp see 'unknow partition'
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 02:41:22PM +0800, me,apporc wrote:
Hi,
I use guestfs.part_disk to partition one disk with 'mbr' and formated it
to ntfs, then attach this disk to one windows xp virtual machine.
But this windows xp can't recognise that partition, it says 'uknown
partition'
Why it is so, and how to solve it? May someone help me with this problem?
Windows won't recognize a partition unless you have the partition type
byte (Linux ignores this byte and just looks at the partition
content). In guestfish you would have to do:
part-set-mbr-id /dev/sda 1 0x7
That is for NTFS; use 0xb for VFAT.
For more information see:
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/3893dc0b9436ebb4dd620c6ca9b...
Unfortunately at the moment there is no method of setting the UUID of
a GPT partitioned disk.
Rich.
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