From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ln8ad-00038a-Oj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:43:03 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ln8aY-00036E-IF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:43:02 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55506 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ln8aY-000363-Ai for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:42:58 -0400 Received: from mta-1.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.7.72]:55772) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_MD5:16) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ln8aX-0003Gn-LO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:42:57 -0400 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-disposition: inline Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Received: from ironport-out-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.40]) by mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0KH5000K3SBI5O90@mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:42:54 +0100 (CET) Received: from pc42.xtal.RWTH-Aachen.DE (pc42.xtal.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.40.42]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id n2R9gsiT021834 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:42:54 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Marten Simons Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] how can i mount a folder as a qemu disk? Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:42:54 +0100 References: <9b711ec60903211902k5f8bdcf5s7eeb8035ae928c15@mail.gmail.com> <20090322121619.GA5660@shareable.org> <9b711ec60903221043t3385a47eub6c5994338a5a14a@mail.gmail.com> In-reply-to: <9b711ec60903221043t3385a47eub6c5994338a5a14a@mail.gmail.com> Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Message-id: <200903271042.54406.marten@xtal.rwth-aachen.de> Reply-To: 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 Am Sonntag, 22. M=E4rz 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 purpo= se=20 is to create a virtual drive out of a folder of the host system. Which soun= ds=20 very much like the thing you want to do. With regards, Jan