Re: Qemu host drive basics.
* On 2014 18 Nov 20:49 -0600, peter@easthope.ca wrote:
> 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
It is rw only for the root user and members of the floppy group. Is
peter a member of the floppy group? Use the 'group' command to find
out.
- Nate
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