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Package: wnpp Version: 1.7.7; issued 2013-08-23 Subject: ITP: confinedrv -- set up a virtual drive with confined access rights Severity: wishlist * Package name : confinedrv Version : 1.7.7 Upstream Author : Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@elstel.org> * URL : http://www.elstel.org/qemu * License : C-FSL v1.0; see for the program header or run the program with --license Description : This utility allows you to limit existing partitions to read only, no-read access or you can err/zero them out while creating an own virtual drive with confined access rights mirroring the original. Replacing the master boot record as well as individual partitions by image files is also supported. This can f.i. be used by a virtual machine to safely boot into one or more operating systems that reside on the same disk as your host operating system. The documentation will tell you how to use that with qemu or qemu-kvm. -- confinedrv is a cute little program making use of device-mapper that has proven useful in many situations. Whether you have a dual boot environment with Windows or just prefer to really boot one of your Linux or BSD installations on hard disk with qemu rather than just using xchroot this little program will come to the rescue. The original idea behind writing this program was to analyse a cracked system on disk safely after installing a fresh system into a free partition. As confinedrv does also allow you to backup the MBR this program allows you to fully move an existing installation into a virtual machine while keeping things safe by restricting access rights to other partitions and the MBR. |