RE: [Xen-devel] raw floppy disk images

["James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> James Harper writes ("[Xen-devel] raw floppy disk images"):
> > I remember reading on the list that there was a security problem
with
> > floppy disk images being probed for being in 'raw' format.
> 
> There was but I fixed it by making floopy images always be expected to
> be in raw format.
> 
> > What is the syntax for specifying a raw floppy disk image in the
latest
> > xen? I've tried 'file:' etc but it doesn't seem to work...
> 
> I think you should be able to say fda='/path/to/whatever'.  I haven't
> tested this.

When I try fda='/installmedia/sif/testdom.img' under 3.4.1 it tells me
it can't load the image. It used to work under 3.3.x

I converted my raw file to a qcow file and that worked perfectly, so the
behaviour is the opposite to what I expected and what you described...

James

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