Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtual FAT disk images error, can somebody help me , thank you !

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 04:57:34PM +0800, Mark Wu wrote:
> On 03/08/2012 02:11 PM, Zhi Hui Li wrote:
> >
> >
> >when I use the command :
> >
> >1: mkdir /my_directory
> >
> >2: qemu linux.img -fda fat:floppy:/my_directory
> >
> >when I write to the floppy(just "mkdir test.dir"  in the floppy),
> >the error occur:
> >
> >"FLOPPY ERROR: fdctrl_transfer_handler: writing sector 1"
> >
> >and nothing is written to the /my_directory.
> >
> >I don't know why?
> >
> >
> >can you help me, thank you very much!
> >
> >
> >
> Zhi Hui,
> You could try:
>      qemu linux.img -fda fat:floppy:rw:/my_directory
> 
> By default, it's only allow read-only access.

That explains it.  Thanks Mark!

Stefan