On Wednesday 03 September 2008 16:41:18 David G. Miller wrote: > Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Can't argue with you :-) It does seem likely, as 1GB flash drives > > wouldn't have been a possibility at that time. I never owned one at all > > until relatively recently. > > > >>> > > They didn't work in 98 first edition, nor in NT4 or Win2000 - > >>> > > again, from memory, which could be faulty. > >> > > >> > In Win2k, Micro$oft finally got up to speed and most flash drives > >> > will work with it, but XP is better. > > > > Fair enough. Out of curiosity - do they work in W2K out of the box, or > > require some update? I ask because I'm considering W2K as a > > VM. > > > > Anne > > Flash support under qemu seems to be about the same as CD-ROM support. > That is, you can access a device present at start up but it's not > swappable. Given: > > [dave@bend ~]# lsusb > Bus 001 Device 002: ID 154b:0005 PNY > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > > you can attach the device to a W2K qemu session by starting qemu with > something like: > > qemu -usb -usbdevice tablet -hda w2k.img -usbdevice host:001.002 -m 256 > -localtime & > > I tried swapping two different 1GB thumb drives and the content of the > drive wasn't visible after the swap. > > If you decide to go the qemu route for a VM with W2K, I wrote about the > problems I ran into on my blog at: > > http://davenjudy.org/wordpress/?p=29 > > Getting a basic W2K VM working was fairly easy but getting it fully > updated was a real pain. I still have a couple of MS updates that I > can't apply since W2K stops working if I do. > Thanks Dave. I'm pushed for time just at the moment, but I do hope to try something like this in a few days. If I go for qemu I'll use your notes for guidance. I don't think I'd bother updating W2K. I don't intend doing any work other than the embroidery machine software, so it shouldn't be vulnerable to Internet nasties. Anne
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