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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: VMWare player
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To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>

On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 23:58 +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> > use qemu-img to create the disk image.
> 
> That is just creation. I think Stefano meant that you cannot use the guest 
> OS to write to that image.

I understood. I just don't believe it; I didn't get the impression
Stefano was saying that he had actually tried it. AFAIK, VMware Player
writes changes to the hard disk image.

-- John.