From 01781963983206feac8c6be5ded68c3ee244c4ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bellard Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 22:43:30 +0000 Subject: win32: physical drive support (initial patch by kazu) git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@2311 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162 --- qemu-doc.texi | 19 +++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'qemu-doc.texi') diff --git a/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu-doc.texi index 655e151490..0423ef0654 100644 --- a/qemu-doc.texi +++ b/qemu-doc.texi @@ -1079,14 +1079,25 @@ line option or modify the device permissions accordingly). @subsubsection Windows -On Windows you can use any host drives as QEMU drive. The prefered -syntax is the driver letter (e.g. @file{d:}). The alternate syntax -@file{\\.\d:} is supported. @file{/dev/cdrom} is supported as an alias -to the first CDROM drive. +@table @code +@item CD +The prefered syntax is the drive letter (e.g. @file{d:}). The +alternate syntax @file{\\.\d:} is supported. @file{/dev/cdrom} is +supported as an alias to the first CDROM drive. Currently there is no specific code to handle removable medias, so it is better to use the @code{change} or @code{eject} monitor commands to change or eject media. +@item Hard disks +Hard disks can be used with the syntax: @file{\\.\PhysicalDriveN} +where @var{N} is the drive number (0 is the first hard disk). + +WARNING: unless you know what you do, it is better to only make +READ-ONLY accesses to the hard disk otherwise you may corrupt your +host data (use the @option{-snapshot} command line so that the +modifications are written in a temporary file). +@end table + @subsubsection Mac OS X -- cgit v1.2.3