Re: libsdl and qemu for linux
On 2/28/06, Star King of the Grape Trees <thestar@fussycoder.id.au> wrote:
> roberto wrote:
> >this seems to be in contrast to what bellard says in his page:
> >http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/faq.html
> >########################################################################
> >Can I use a real disk, floppy or CDROM in QEMU ?
> > Yes, at least with Linux. For the floppy, use /dev/fd0 as image
> >filename. For the cdrom, use /dev/cdrom. For a real hard disk, first
> >ensure that you have read-only permission to the device (it is very
> >dangerous to leave write access to the device because in case of
> >problems you can trash your hard disk). Then use /dev/hda to use the
> >hard disk 0. As QEMU will have read-only access to the device, all the
> >changes will be discarded at the end of the QEMU session. For more
> >safety if you do not know the access rights of the hard disk device,
> >always use the -snapshot option:
> >qemu -snapshot /dev/hda
> >########################################################################
> >what do you think about this?
> >
> Using /dev/hda in qemu while you have partitions on that hard drive
> mounted and running linux just gives me the cringes.
>
perhaps i did not understand correctly what Bellard was intented to say...
sorry, maybe you're right
--
roberto
OS: GNU/Linux, Debian Sarge
- kernel: 2.6.8-2-686 VM: qemu, 0.6.1
- KDE: 3.3 editor: gvim 6.3.71
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