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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 ... ;-)

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