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Rugxulo wrote: > Right, QEMU won't save to fat:/ (i.e. host drive), only to virtual > images (e.g. -fda floppy.img or -hda filename.img). I think it will > never support that, IIRC. Kinda a bummer. What I did was QEMU-IMG > create a blank image file, boot QEMU with FreeDOS, format that image > file (as if it was a real hard drive), then unpack BasicLinux on the > fake image, and run from there (not boot from locally since I knew it > wouldn't save changes that way). You do have to transfer files > manually via floppy images or FTP or whatever. It's a known > shortcoming of QEMU (or at least I never bothered / learned any other > way, not sure about the experimental USB support). QEMU also supports VHD or VMDK disk images. Both, Microsoft Virtual Server and VMware Server include tools (vhdmount.exe or vmware-mount.exe) to mount disk images to a drive letter on your Windows system. If you know how to unpack their setup files ... ;-) -- Robert Riebisch Bitte NUR in der Newsgroup antworten! Please reply to the Newsgroup ONLY!
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