Re: About usage of floppy with linux guests on gnome-boxes

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak gnome org>]

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr redhat com> wrote:
> On 12/02/2011 11:43 AM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>>
>>    Done and it works now. :) Will send the patch to bz shortly and
>> once ack'ed, i can push it.. Thanks so much!! This has caused me
>> sleepless nights for so long. :(
>
>
> You're very welcome! Thinking about it, I believe it'd be very reasonable to
> have those files created at runtime, since we are already relying on libvirt
> + kvm, so qemu-img is pretty much guaranteed to be there. At least we could
> save up a good 1.44 MB from the source code repository.

  Don't think thats a real issue since most of it is filled with
zeroes and hence git is able to compress that to a very small size.

> I could cook a patch for it, but I'm still limited on my ability to build
> and test my code (jhbuild is giving me some trouble here), so the best I can
> do right now is throw some lines without any confidence I'm not making any
> mistakes...

  No hurries, you already solved a big issue for us. :)

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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124