I've used both -hda /dev/sda and -hdc /dev/sda for
booting from and just accessing a flashdrive
respectively on linux. Probably -hdc \\.\E: would
work for accessing the flashdrive from qemu running on
MS
Regards,
Brad Watson
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> Mark Williamson wrote:
> > If only one machine (host or guest) has mounted the device then it should
> > always be safe to do this. You may get away with read only mounting in
> > one and writing in the other but it's not a reliable solution. Never
> > allow more than one writer to the filesyst
> one more question on this theme. How do I know when the guest OS has
> finished booting? The reason I ask is I am planning on using ssh to
> perform various operations on the guest OS once it's up.
Just like a real machine, you don't. You need to configure the guest to tell
the host when it's
Mark Williamson wrote:
If only one machine (host or guest) has mounted the device then it should
always be safe to do this. You may get away with read only mounting in one
and writing in the other but it's not a reliable solution. Never allow more
than one writer to the filesystem - this does