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[Bug 1854878] Re: Physical USB thumbdrive treated as read-only
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[Bug 1854878] Re: Physical USB thumbdrive treated as read-only |
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Tue, 22 Jun 2021 04:18:46 -0000 |
[Expired for QEMU because there has been no activity for 60 days.]
** Changed in: qemu
Status: Incomplete => Expired
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Title:
Physical USB thumbdrive treated as read-only
Status in QEMU:
Expired
Bug description:
So I have installed FreeDOS on my USB thumbdrive, by using Rufus.
Everything goes as expected so far. That's good.
When I run QEMU with this command line:
qemu-system-x86_64.exe -drive file=\\.\PhysicalDrive1
it of course is read-only, just like the resulting console message says:
WARNING: Image format was not specified for '\\.\PhysicalDrive1' and probing
guessed raw.
Automatically detecting the format is dangerous for raw images,
write operations on block 0 will be restricted.
Specify the 'raw' format explicitly to remove the restrictions.
So what I then did, was I ran QEMU with this command line:
qemu-system-x86_64.exe -drive file=\\.\PhysicalDrive1,format=raw
As expected, the above mentioned console message no longer appears.
However, beyond that, QEMU doesn't behave as it should regarding read-only
status. When I try any operation that involves writing to the drive, it becomes
quite clear that the drive is still read-only. Any writing operations to the
drive result in FreeDOS giving me the error message:
Error writing to drive C: DOS area: sector not found.
The above situation is clearly a bug. QEMU should not be treating it
as read-only once I specify format=raw.
Note that drive C is how the guest OS refers to the USB thumbdrive
(it's drive E in my host OS, and drive C in my host OS is the actual
system drive).
And yes, it is a QEMU bug. It's not a FreeDOS bug I tested it with this
command line, so that all changes would be written to a temporary snapshot file:
qemu-system-x86_64.exe -drive file=\\.\PhysicalDrive1,format=raw,snapshot
That last drive option "snapshot" tells QEMU to create a temporary snapshot
file, and to write all changes to that. When I do that, all write operations
are successful. So it seems that there is a bug in QEMU where it keeps
read-only mode in place for a physical drive, even when format=raw is
specified. Please fix this bug. Thanks in advance.
Here's my current setup.
Host OS: Windows 10 (64bit)
Guest OS: FreeDOS
QEMU version: 4.1.0
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