From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lk3i7-0000ch-N0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:54:03 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lk3i3-0000T5-Mg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:54:03 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49730 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lk3i3-0000Sp-IR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:53:59 -0400 Received: from mailout.artfiles.de ([80.252.97.80]:41428) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lk3i3-00030u-4Y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:53:59 -0400 Received: from [77.128.76.68] (helo=[192.168.0.4]) auth=rr@bttr-software.de by mailout.artfiles.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) id 1Lk3hy-0006de-Ju for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:53:54 +0100 Message-ID: <49C16D71.7020104@bttr-software.de> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:53:53 +0100 From: Robert Riebisch MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] r6677 broke access to physical FDD on Win32 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 Hi! If I run QEMU on Win32 with option "-fda a:", then I'm unable to access physical floppies from guest OS. "Physical" also includes virtual drives created by . I'm also unable to boot such floppies ("-boot a"). Error message is: "Boot failed: not a bootable floppy disk" By doing some builds I narrowed the problem down to by Anthony Liguori. Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/