Changeset 2772 in vbox for trunk/src/VBox/Frontends

Timestamp:

May 22, 2007 2:40:40 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

svn:sync-xref-src-repo-rev:

21379

Message:

Implement option to replace MBR code for raw partition VMDKs.

File:

• trunk/src/VBox/Frontends/VBoxManage/VBoxInternalManage.cpp (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/src/VBox/Frontends/VBoxManage/VBoxInternalManage.cpp

@@ -95 +95 @@
             (u64Cmd & USAGE_CREATERAWVMDK) ?
                 "  createrawvmdk -filename <filename> -rawdisk <diskname>\n"
-                "                [-partitions <list of partition numbers>]\n"
+                "                [-partitions <list of partition numbers> [-mbr <filename>] ]\n"
                 "                [-register] [-relative]\n"
-                "       Creates a new VMDK image which gives access to an entite host disk or\n"
-                "       some partitions of a host disk. The diskname is on Linux e.g. /dev/sda,\n"
-                "       and on Windows e.g. \\\\.\\PhysicalDisk0).\n"
+                "       Creates a new VMDK image which gives access to an entite host disk (if\n"
+                "       the parameter -partitions is not specified) or some partitions of a\n"
+                "       host disk. If access to individual partitions is granted, then the\n"
+                "       parameter -mbr can be used to specify an alternative MBR to be used\n"
+                "       (the partitioning information in the MBR file is ignored).\n"
+                "       The diskname is on Linux e.g. /dev/sda, and on Windows e.g.\n"
+                "       \\\\.\\PhysicalDisk0).\n"
                 "       On Linux host the parameter -relative causes a VMDK file to be created\n"
                 "       which refers to individual partitions instead to the entire disk.\n"