On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 04:33:00PM +0100, lacsaP Patatetom wrote: > having said that, and if you respect the constraints ("what you > should never do..."), vvfat is a really nice way of performing and > repeating quick tests without having to go through the process of > building/creating/updating disk images.
While I agree with what you say here and I also think that it would be nice if that driver was maintained and had more features... really, creating a temporary FAT image of a few hundred MBs with some files inside takes less than a second in a modern computer, you can boot QEMU like this and you won't probably even notice the difference: $QEMU -drive if=ide,file=$(create-image.sh),driver=raw Berto