I agree that the feature is useful, but your patch is incomplete:
without bs_table[0], the boot sector cannot be created and the Linux
kernel cannot be launched. Maybe you have a specific Ethernet BIOS to
enable that ? Someone submitted a new block driver which simulated
"/dev/zero" and it may
The qemu -kernel option currently requires specifying a hard disk
image with -hda. Ostensibly at least one hard disk is needed for
qemu's boot loader to populate the partition table in its array of
boot sectors.
Passing -hda /dev/zero tricks qemu into booting, which demonstrates
that the requirem