If you need OS portability then the "usb-mtp" device is also an option for adhoc file sharing.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/304636 Title: -hda FAT:. limited to 504MBytes Status in QEMU: Confirmed Status in qemu package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Binary package hint: qemu The size of the virtual FAT file system (for sharing a particular directory with Guest OS) is hard-coded to be limited to 504MBytes, in block-vvfat.c -- /* 504MB disk*/ bs->cyls=1024; bs->heads=16; bs->secs=63; -- If the directory contents exceeds this is stops with an assert -- qemu: block-vvfat.c:97: array_get: Assertion `index < array->next' failed. Aborted -- Also the FAT16 mode (default) only uses 8KByte cluster sizes which prevents the above being increased. 16KByte and 32KByte sectors can be selected with the following patch -- --- block-vvfat.c_orig 2008-12-02 12:37:28.000000000 -0700 +++ block-vvfat.c 2008-12-02 19:50:35.000000000 -0700 @@ -1042,6 +1042,12 @@ s->fat_type = 32; } else if (strstr(dirname, ":16:")) { s->fat_type = 16; + } else if (strstr(dirname, ":16-16K:")) { + s->fat_type = 16; + s->sectors_per_cluster=0x20; + } else if (strstr(dirname, ":16-32K:")) { + s->fat_type = 16; + s->sectors_per_cluster=0x40; } else if (strstr(dirname, ":12:")) { s->fat_type = 12; s->sector_count=2880; -- Cheers, Mungewell To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/304636/+subscriptions
