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Re: [Qemu-devel] Feature Request: Allow the use of real partitions
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Johannes Schindelin |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] Feature Request: Allow the use of real partitions |
Date: |
Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:07:19 +0200 (CEST) |
Hi,
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Ricardo Almeida wrote:
> Since Qemu allows the use of a real cdrom, why doesn't it support the
> use of a real hard drive partition (-hdb /dev/hda1 for instance)? Is it
> hard to make it work?
It would be doable. You'd have to fake a real disk around it, but it's
easier than the fake vfat support. You could probably pay Fabrice to do it
for you.
> I think this would be a great feature as it allows an easy way to share
> files without having to configure samba.
Well, that is not true. You would run into all kind of problems, because
OSes do not like to share control over a hard disk. They just don't expect
that something changed, and make inconsitent changes themselves.
Hth,
Dscho