Bug 620543 - windows 2003 fails to find floppy drive
Summary: windows 2003 fails to find floppy drive
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: libvirt
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Libvirt Maintainers
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-08-02 19:48 UTC by Ruben Kerkhof
Modified: 2012-06-07 14:50 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-06-07 13:44:08 UTC
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Floppy drive needs the floppy interface type (850 bytes, patch)
2010-08-02 19:48 UTC, Ruben Kerkhof 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Ruben Kerkhof 2010-08-02 19:48:28 UTC 
Created attachment 436108 [details]
Floppy drive needs the floppy interface type

Description of problem:

I'm trying to load the virtio storage drivers from a floppy image by pressing F6 during Windows setup. Windows tells me that no floppy drives can be found.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

libvirt-0.8.2-3.fc14

How reproducible:

Define a floppy drive as:

<disk type='file' device='floppy'>
    <source file='/data/windows/viostor-31-03-2010-floppy.img' />
    <target dev='fda' />
</disk>

and boot from the Windows CD.

The floppy part in the generated qemu cmdline:
-drive file=/data/windows/viostor-31-03-2010-floppy.img,if=none,id=drive-fdc0-0-0,format=raw -global isa-fdc.driveA=drive-fdc0-0-0

Changing if=none to if=floppy works, I've attached a rather crude patch which does just that.
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Comment 8 Cole Robinson 2012-06-07 13:44:08 UTC 
Sorry for the lack of response, but given the age of this bug, closing as WONTFIX.

Ruben (or anyone), if you can still reproduce with a more recent Fedora,
please reopen this report and we can go from there.
Comment 9 Ruben Kerkhof 2012-06-07 14:50:58 UTC 
No problem, thanks for the feedback.
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