On 2/28/06, Star King of the Grape Trees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > roberto wrote: > >this seems to be in contrast to what bellard says in his page: > >http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/faq.html > >######################################################################## > >Can I use a real disk, floppy or CDROM in QEMU ? > > Yes, at least with Linux. For the floppy, use /dev/fd0 as image > >filename. For the cdrom, use /dev/cdrom. For a real hard disk, first > >ensure that you have read-only permission to the device (it is very > >dangerous to leave write access to the device because in case of > >problems you can trash your hard disk). Then use /dev/hda to use the > >hard disk 0. As QEMU will have read-only access to the device, all the > >changes will be discarded at the end of the QEMU session. For more > >safety if you do not know the access rights of the hard disk device, > >always use the -snapshot option: > >qemu -snapshot /dev/hda > >######################################################################## > >what do you think about this? > > > Using /dev/hda in qemu while you have partitions on that hard drive > mounted and running linux just gives me the cringes. > perhaps i did not understand correctly what Bellard was intented to say... sorry, maybe you're right
-- roberto OS: GNU/Linux, Debian Sarge - kernel: 2.6.8-2-686 VM: qemu, 0.6.1 - KDE: 3.3 editor: gvim 6.3.71
