Re: [Qemu-devel] Feature Request: Allow the use of real partitions

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Ricardo Almeida wrote:

> Since Qemu allows the use of a real cdrom, why doesn't it support the 
> use of a real hard drive partition (-hdb /dev/hda1 for instance)? Is it 
> hard to make it work?

It would be doable. You'd have to fake a real disk around it, but it's 
easier than the fake vfat support. You could probably pay Fabrice to do it 
for you.

> I think this would be a great feature as it allows an easy way to share 
> files without having to configure samba.

Well, that is not true. You would run into all kind of problems, because 
OSes do not like to share control over a hard disk. They just don't expect 
that something changed, and make inconsitent changes themselves.

Hth,
Dscho