Guides:MAME - chdman notes

Notes for Compressed Hunks of Data Manager

Example reading an MSDOS hdd

Convert a HD Image

Convert a chd to a hd image/raw

$ ./chdman -extracthd --input <chd> --out <file.hdd>

Inspect the partition table for the disk

# fdisk <file.hdd>

Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.34).
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
Be careful before using the write command.


Command (m for help): p
Disk file.hdd: 100 MiB, 104857600 bytes, 204800 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device     Boot Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type
file.hdd1  *       63 1032191 1032129  504M  6 FAT16

Command (m for help): 

Mount the raw image as a loopback device

# losetup -fP <file.hdd>

-f find first unused loopback device
-P partition scan

See the device created (may auto mount)

# losetup -a | grep <file.hdd>

Providing your OS can mount the fstype

# mount <device> <location>

Convert a VMDK to CHD

Using qemu to convert a pre-existing vmdk to chd

$ qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O raw disk.vmdk disk.raw
$ chdman createhd -i disk.raw -o disk.chd

run an info to pull the chs for the hdd bios config