This is expected behavior. ** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Won't Fix
-- vvfat out of sync with host https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/584083 You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. Status in QEMU: Won't Fix Bug description: The vvfat directory in the guest os only synces up with the host when qemu is shutdown and started again. Running sync on the host does not help. Also, I can't cd into the vvfat directory; although, I can read from it. I start qemu using the following line in a bash script: qemu -hda /home/davekong/.freedos/c.hd -hdb fat:/home/davekong/code/assembly Host: Arch Linux; kernel 2.6.33-ARCH Guest: FreeDOS 1.0.0 full, but without drivers installed