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RE: [Qemu-devel] Patch: virtual vfat support


From: Andreas Bollhalder
Subject: RE: [Qemu-devel] Patch: virtual vfat support
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 00:01:57 +0100

> On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Magnus Damm wrote:
> 
> > but I am not sure if operating systems would work with a
read-write
> > implementation where the host adds data to the wfat 
> filesystem - I mean,
> > how do we notify the guest operating system that 
> directories or files
> > have changed?
> 
> If it is no networked file system, then there is no way... apart
from
> using a removable device, like you suggested. But having implemented
> FAT16, I'd rather go for FAT12 (floppy disks), because even 
> DOS can work
> with floppy disks out of the box, while it cannot do that 
> with ISO9660,
> let alone CDROM drives.

I vote for a "networked file system" with an small guest driver...
especially for DOS.

Andreas





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