Bug report for new MacOS X compilation
Greg Alexander
mol-devel@lists.maconlinux.org
Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:43:15 -0600
Samuel Rydh wrote:
>>That is, I'd like "hda" to be a
>>virtual disk that is contained within a file. Preferably this is a
>>sparse file (does HFS+ support sparse files?).
>
>
> Don't know. MOL just treats it as an ordinary file so if it
> is sparse from the beginning things will work just fine.
Even if it is sparse, the file will not stay sparse for long, as the
guest OS thinks its an ordinary disk partition and will make no effort
to leave unused sectors blank.
GREG