Re: [Qemu-devel] how can i mount a folder as a qemu disk?

[Jan Marten Simons <marten@xtal.rwth-aachen.de>]

Am Sonntag, 22. März 2009 18:43:51 schrieb Paulo Silva:
> thanking the all answers so far (and expecting for more indeed)
> as far i didn't have samba installed yet (lazyness), and i confess i'm
> not that skilled to configure networks...
>
> for this, i would suggest qemu having a folder mounting as imagedisk,
> just like happened on UAE and Basilisk, and making us able to emulate
> operating systems not having network support, and with an easy access
> to the base operating system files - and this situation like
> 'sometimes works and sometimes don't, because samba lack of support',
> would be very annoying being so dependant to that issues...
>
> would be interesting if, when we set in the command line, a directory
> instead of a imagedisk ( like '-hdc ~/.qemu/hd/' instead of '-hdc
> ~/.qemu/hd50mb.img'), would be very interesting... - if UAE and
> Basilisk can do that, i think Qemu could do as well - maybe getting
> some code from there? (sorry not being that skilled on C coding, i
> really wanted to help on it....)

I'm not sure about the current state of vvfat in qemu 0.10.1, but its purpose 
is to create a virtual drive out of a folder of the host system. Which sounds 
very much like the thing you want to do.

With regards,
Jan