Qemu host drive basics.

[peter@easthope.ca]

http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-doc.html#sec_005finvocation
contains,
"`-fda file'
  ...
You can use the host floppy by using `/dev/fd0' as filename ..."

Therefore take any diskette which the bare PC can boot from and
try to boot the virtual machine from it.

Here fd0 twitches; then an error.
peter@armada:~$ sudo qemu-system-i386 -fda /dev/fd0 -vga std -boot a
qemu-system-i386: -fda /dev/fd0: could not open disk image /dev/fd0:
Input/output error

I/o error?  Certainly it is read/writable.

peter@armada:~$ ls -l /dev/fd0
brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 2, 0 Nov 17 16:44 /dev/fd0

Can anyone make the virtual machine boot from a real boot diskette?

Thanks,             ... Peter E.

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