Re: [Qemu-devel] r6677 broke access to physical FDD on Win32

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Robert Riebisch wrote:
> Hi!
>
> If I run QEMU on Win32 with option "-fda a:", then I'm unable to access
> physical floppies from guest OS. "Physical" also includes virtual drives
> created by <http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html>.
>
> I'm also unable to boot such floppies ("-boot a"). Error message is:
> "Boot failed: not a bootable floppy disk"
>
> By doing some builds I narrowed the problem down to
> <http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=6677> by
> Anthony Liguori.
>   

I suspect this code:

block-raw-win32.c:raw_getlength():

    case FTYPE_HARDDISK:
        status = DeviceIoControl(s->hfile, IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_GEOMETRY_EX,
                                 NULL, 0, &dg, sizeof(dg), &count, NULL);
        if (status != 0) {
            l = dg.DiskSize;
        }
        break;

Is not doing the correct thing.

Looking at the code, perhaps you should be saying -fda //./a.  I don't 
know a lot about windows but that sure does look weird to me.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Robert Riebisch
>