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From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] how can i mount a folder as a qemu disk?
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:47:45 -0500
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Cc: Paulo Silva <nitrofurano@gmail.com>

On Saturday 21 March 2009 21:02:25 Paulo Silva wrote:
> Hi!
> How can i mount a folder as a disk, just like what UAE and Basilisk2 does?
> This is very useful for me, for transfering stuff between the root
> operating-system and the emulated one, and vice-versa
> cheers,
> Paulo

Well, there's always sshfs:

  http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html

If you're stuck emulating windows and you don't mind it being A) read only, B) 
horribly inefficient, you can try the virtual FAT support:

  http://www.nongnu.org/qemu/qemu-doc.html#SEC25

Note that's got some serious rough edges.  Specifically, if you _don't_ mount 
that read only, and your kernel accidentally tries to write to it, the device 
behaves badly.  (My emulated linux kernel went into an endless loop due to a 
dropped interrupt or some such.  No idea what windows would do, I haven't got 
one..)


Rob