Re: [Qemu-devel] My bad! weird non-committal of writes under Vista 32

[Shaddy Baddah]

Hi,

Shaddy Baddah wrote:
> The problem I am having is that any changes I make to the guest ext3
> filesystem are not committed between cycles of the its guest OS. Now, I
> recall having this problem on a Linux host of a Windows XP guest, and in
> that case it was because I hadn't noticed that I had no write access to
> the device.
>
> First, can someone confirm that qemu would continue to operate even if
> denied write access to one of the drives?
Obviously yes. The problem appears to be that I had setup a permanent 
mount using ext2fsd on the partition in question. To qemu, everything 
appears normal (it is not being denied write access to the disk). The 
bigger problem is that it seems Windows just drops all the writes when 
another process has a hold of the disk. The safety aspect of this is 
desirable, but it would have been nice to have had some indication of 
this (even if it was deny write access to qemu, so that it looked like a 
read-only disk).
> Second, is anyone familiar with why on this Vista 32 host, I would not
> have write privileges? If that is even why I am having the problem in
> the first place.

Question is redundant. It's not an OS issue. Sorry for any confusion caused.

Regards,
Shaddy