From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1ChXxt-0001UB-IY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:45:33 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1ChXxt-0001Tz-6F for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:45:33 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1ChXxt-0001Tw-3d for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:45:33 -0500 Received: from [62.2.95.247] (helo=smtp.hispeed.ch) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1ChXn1-0007CN-5R for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:34:19 -0500 From: "Andreas Bollhalder" Subject: RE: [Qemu-devel] Patch: virtual vfat support Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 19:31:00 +0100 Message-ID: <000001c4e91d$8d4306c0$6401a8c0@geodb.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: <2ad73a041222170211aefffe@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: bolle@geodb.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?'Andr=E9_Braga'?= , qemu-devel@nongnu.org > You misunderstood what he meant. On his *host* system, the D drive > holds the temp\2 directory, as in d:\temp\2. QEMU is also installed in > the D drive/partition, so specifying /TEMP/2 goes to the root of the > filesystem in this partition. He couldn't figure out a way to change > to another path in another partition/drive, say, e:\temp\qemu , or > even a CD drive letter: having a virtual VFAT partition built on top > of a CD directory structure would work around having to make a ISO > image of the disk in a considerable number of situations. That's right, but I know now why, it's because the directories on other host drives have been holding more data the vvfat drive could represent and QEmu quits without a message. Now I know that, I can use other host drives too. > I haven't tested your patch yet, so I can't say I figured how to > change drives myself. Maybe \\.\e\temp\qemu as in my example above? > I've seen such UNC convention work in QEMU before (more specifically > the discussions on Japanese Knoppix and QEMU). This would be the nice way. Or maybe one likes more an URL like "sftp://myhost.mydomain/mydir/myimage" ? Andreas ___________________________________________ IDEEN UND ZEIT SIND UMGEKEHRT PROPORTIONAL.