From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1ChY2k-0002gy-2Q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:50:34 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1ChY2i-0002gJ-U4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:50:33 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1ChY2i-0002g9-PZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:50:32 -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 1ChXs0-0000Hj-8E for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:39:28 -0500 Received: from nbbolle (80-218-110-20.dclient.hispeed.ch [80.218.110.20]) by smtp.hispeed.ch (8.12.6/8.12.6/tornado-1.0) with ESMTP id iBNIdQFx023389 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 19:39:26 +0100 From: "Andreas Bollhalder" Subject: RE: [Qemu-devel] What is the minimal linux setup for running Qemu ? Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 19:36:13 +0100 Message-ID: <000101c4e91e$478cb170$6401a8c0@geodb.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20041223020208.GA27626@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> 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: qemu-devel@nongnu.org > Or you could use a loopback on a RAM disk, and then merely > copy the loopback > to the flash when you are done. This actually reduces the > writes (since you then > only need to write one file out per session) but has its cost > in reliability > (if something happens and the session ends w/o the loopback > being copied over > (say power goes out) then you loose all the work you have > done for that session). Why not using a temporary disk image on the lokal host drive(s) ? Andreas