[Qemu-discuss] Re: running a system installer under QEMU

[peter]

From:   Dale R. Worley
Date:   Mon, 3 Nov 2014 16:31:03 -0500
> QEMU could easily use a different convention than the OS that it is
> running on because QEMU doesn't use the name to access the OS's file
> system.  QEMU has to decide "Do I present an IDE interface to the
> simulated CPU, or do I present a SCSI interface?"

OK, I've used the -drive option and specified if=ide.  Still the installation 
process yields a system where the boot loader begins the first sector but 
fails before or in the second.

The document 
http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/install.html#E1
has the sentence, 
"Note that the diskette image file, filled to the brim, exceeds the capacity of 
a high capacity diskette."

Given the command
sudo qemu-system-i386 -boot a -fda DisketteImage ... 
where DisketteImage is larger than an ordinary HD diskette image, 
will that be problematic for qemu?

Thanks,                            ... Peter E.
  

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