Package: qemu Version: 0.8.2-4 Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss
I use qemu win98bug.img -hdb fat:rw:test I know from /usr/share/doc/qemu/qemu-doc.html that I shouldn't use non-ASCII filenames, etc. Apparently data loss occurs, if the *contents* of the file contain some non-ASCII characters. 1. Ordinary txt file - In windows, I create a txt file and edit it with notepad. - If the text of that file just contains ASCII characters everything is fine. - If I add one German umlaut A, everything is fine, I can change and save the text. On reboot of the guest all changes will be lost! 2. Office document - In openoffice.org on the host's etch, I create a document with one word "test" in it (only the 4 letters), save it as 'Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP' and copy it to the test-directory. - I open and close the file ok from within windows 98 / office 2000 (word) as long as I don't change anything. - I add *one* letter to the "test" text --> "testa" and save the document from M$ office on the guest and shutdown / reboot the guest - the file is corrupted: word will report "Document name or path invalid" (my translation from German). Openoffice will freeze on trying to open the document. This also happens to more complex documents. The same image file works fine with the same office document (and many others), if I don't use the above command line, but just use qemu win98bug.img and install samba 'properly' on the host. Since there is also #419515, this seems to be the *only* choice as far as data transfer between guest and host is possible. It was quite a learning experience to me to get it working, however, *Thanks for the good work* and for providing a means of not having to shutdown debian, just to be able to edit the odd word document that won't render properly in Openoffice.org! Johannes NB: the folder in quesiton is on a standard ext3 partition, if this is relevant. I experimented a little with using one on a fat32 partition, but that didn't make a difference IIRC. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages qemu depends on: ii bochsbios 2.3-2 BIOS for the Bochs emulator ii libasound2 1.0.13-2 ALSA library ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.11-8 Simple DirectMedia Layer ii openhackware 0.4.1-2 OpenFirmware emulator for PowerPC ii proll 18-2 JavaStation PROM 2.x compatible re ii vgabios 0.6a-1 VGA BIOS software for the Bochs an ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime Versions of packages qemu recommends: ii debootstrap 0.3.3.2 Bootstrap a basic Debian system ii sharutils 1:4.2.1-15 shar, unshar, uuencode, uudecode pn vde <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
