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From: "Jim C. Brown" <jma5@umd.edu>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Real hard disk drive for Win2k/XP host
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:39:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050914153943.GA6838@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <005a01c5b8de$373f1a20$0464a8c0@athlon>

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 12:41:39PM +0900, Kazu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This patch supports a real hard disk drive by \\.\PhysicalDriveN
> (N=0,1,2,...) on Windows 2000/XP host. Windows 98/Me are not supported.
> You can also use slash like //./PhysicalDriveN. You can see a number in
> Administration Tools in Control Panel. This is not case-sensitive. It is
> necessary to have an administrative priviledge.This can be used like this.
> 
> >qemu.exe -L .\bios -hda win2k.img -hdb \\.\PhysicalDrive0
> 

I don't see any code for this in your patch. AFAIK qemu supports this already.

> This patch also adds a size information about CD-ROM.
> 

It breaks non-Windows hosts. get_size() should only be called when running
on Windows and when size == -1.

Also, it is always a bad idea to have a filesystem used by both the host and
the guest OS (unless they both can see it read-only).

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-14 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-14  3:41 [Qemu-devel] Real hard disk drive for Win2k/XP host Kazu
2005-09-14 15:39 ` Jim C. Brown [this message]
2005-09-14 23:07   ` Kazu

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