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Re: [Xen-devel] xl vs. xm: floppy support

On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 12:00 +0000, Gianni Tedesco wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 10:38 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 09:37 +0000, Christoph Egger wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > when I want to boot a guest from a floppy then
> > > this works with 'xm/xend' but not with 'xl'.
> > > 
> > > An example guest config line is this:
> > > 
> > > fda = '/data/images/guests/XPmode64/Win764.flp'
> > 
> > Looks like there is no floppy disk support in libxl at all :-/. I guess
> > noone missed it up until now.
> 
> I just guessed xen didn't support it at all! Never saw any code for it
> on my travels.

It's only for HVM guests. I think it's as simple as passing
"-fda /path/to/img" to qemu-dm but of course you still need to plumb
that through.

Ian.


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