RE: [Qemu-devel] Patch: virtual vfat support

[Andreas Bollhalder]

> On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Magnus Damm wrote:
> 
> > but I am not sure if operating systems would work with a
read-write
> > implementation where the host adds data to the wfat 
> filesystem - I mean,
> > how do we notify the guest operating system that 
> directories or files
> > have changed?
> 
> If it is no networked file system, then there is no way... apart
from
> using a removable device, like you suggested. But having implemented
> FAT16, I'd rather go for FAT12 (floppy disks), because even 
> DOS can work
> with floppy disks out of the box, while it cannot do that 
> with ISO9660,
> let alone CDROM drives.

I vote for a "networked file system" with an small guest driver...
especially for DOS.

Andreas