From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1ChHXm-0002sl-86 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:13:30 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1ChHXk-0002sA-Vu for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:13:29 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1ChHXk-0002s0-NY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:13:28 -0500 Received: from [64.233.170.206] (helo=rproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ChHN6-0003Oc-QN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:02:29 -0500 Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id a36so45426rnf for ; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:02:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2ad73a041222170211aefffe@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:02:26 -0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Braga?= Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Patch: virtual vfat support In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <000001c4e7af$1c634f60$6401a8c0@geodb.org> Reply-To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Braga?= , 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 On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:55:01 +0100 (CET), Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Of course this doesn't work. As D:\ is already the host directory /TEMP/2, > you would try to change to /TEMP/2/TEMP/2 with this command. > > BTW, what exactly do you mean by "another drive" and "partition"? The > VVFAT driver transparently builds a hard disk image for your host > directory, which behaves like a drive inside QEmu, having exactly one > partition with a VFAT file system. You misunderstood what he meant. On his *host* system, the D drive holds the temp\2 directory, as in d:\temp\2. QEMU is also installed in the D drive/partition, so specifying /TEMP/2 goes to the root of the filesystem in this partition. He couldn't figure out a way to change to another path in another partition/drive, say, e:\temp\qemu , or even a CD drive letter: having a virtual VFAT partition built on top of a CD directory structure would work around having to make a ISO image of the disk in a considerable number of situations. I haven't tested your patch yet, so I can't say I figured how to change drives myself. Maybe \\.\e\temp\qemu as in my example above? I've seen such UNC convention work in QEMU before (more specifically the discussions on Japanese Knoppix and QEMU). -- "The weakest way to solve a problem is just to solve it" -Alan Kay