Index: contrib/conf/ia32-qe.sh
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--- contrib/conf/ia32-qe.sh	(revision 7fcb74c4d9363ba196a35dcae007d72b97bb73da)
+++ contrib/conf/ia32-qe.sh	(revision 7fcb74c4d9363ba196a35dcae007d72b97bb73da)
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+DISK_IMG=hdisk.img
+
+# Create a disk image if it does not exist
+if [ ! -f "$DISK_IMG" ]; then
+	tools/mkfat.py uspace/dist/data "$DISK_IMG"
+fi
+
+qemu -m 32 -hda "$DISK_IMG" -cdrom image.iso -boot d
Index: contrib/conf/mips32-gx.sh
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--- contrib/conf/mips32-gx.sh	(revision b4c6e837c4fb040fea79da60ab626fa175236dd9)
+++ contrib/conf/mips32-gx.sh	(revision 7fcb74c4d9363ba196a35dcae007d72b97bb73da)
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-gxemul $@ -E testmips -C R4000 -X image.boot
+DISK_IMG=hdisk.img
+
+# Create a disk image if it does not exist
+if [ ! -f "$DISK_IMG" ]; then
+	tools/mkfat.py uspace/dist/data "$DISK_IMG"
+fi
+
+gxemul $@ -E testmips -C R4000 -X image.boot -d d0:"$DISK_IMG"