From: "Andreas Bollhalder" <bolle@geodb.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: RE: [Qemu-devel] Patch: virtual vfat support
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 00:01:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000601c4e61e$bdd2c250$6401a8c0@geodb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0412192329360.4461@wgmdd8.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
> On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Magnus Damm wrote:
>
> > but I am not sure if operating systems would work with a
read-write
> > implementation where the host adds data to the wfat
> filesystem - I mean,
> > how do we notify the guest operating system that
> directories or files
> > have changed?
>
> If it is no networked file system, then there is no way... apart
from
> using a removable device, like you suggested. But having implemented
> FAT16, I'd rather go for FAT12 (floppy disks), because even
> DOS can work
> with floppy disks out of the box, while it cannot do that
> with ISO9660,
> let alone CDROM drives.
I vote for a "networked file system" with an small guest driver...
especially for DOS.
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-19 23:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-19 18:15 [Qemu-devel] Patch: virtual vfat support Johannes Schindelin
2004-12-19 19:32 ` Magnus Damm
2004-12-19 19:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2004-12-19 20:40 ` Magnus Damm
2004-12-19 22:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
2004-12-19 23:01 ` Andreas Bollhalder [this message]
2004-12-20 15:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2004-12-19 21:02 ` Panagiotis Issaris
2004-12-19 22:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2004-12-20 8:32 ` zitu
2004-12-20 15:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.58.0412202329290.8198@wgmdd8.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
2004-12-21 22:47 ` Andreas Bollhalder
2004-12-22 18:55 ` Johannes Schindelin
2004-12-23 1:02 ` André Braga
2004-12-23 18:31 ` Andreas Bollhalder
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