On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:41 PM, David G. Miller <dave at davenjudy.org> wrote: > Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> 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. You can swap cdrom from qemu monitor. I haven't tried, but I think the same thing can be applied to usb.. -- Marcelo "¿No será acaso que ésta vida moderna está teniendo más de moderna que de vida?" (Mafalda)