On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 01:00:05AM +0100, Csepp wrote: > Hi! > > Would it be possible to store the metadata for emulated FAT partitions > backed by host directories? It would make installing Windows 98 much > more seamless, since it would be able to set the boot flag during > install. I have a 9front install that uses no block devices and gets its > root file system via a simple 9P server, I've found that extremely > useful, since it lets me back up or modify files directly from the host. > > I don't have that much free time, but if it wouldn't be too difficult to > implement this and someone helped, I could try to do it myself. But > honestly I would be super thankful if someone else implemented it > instead.
I wonder if you can already accomplish this using nbdkit-floppy-plugin (expose a directory as a FAT file system over NBD), then connect qemu as an NBD client, rather than having to implement this all in qemu proper. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
