Re: [fedora-virt] Virtual CD-ROM & floppy problems in F16
Ian Pilcher <arequipeno(a)gmail.com> writes:
I am trying to set up a (32-bit) Windows 7 guest on Fedora 16, and
I've
run into a couple of irritating problems.
1. The guest does not seem to recognize the virtual floppy drive at
all. I've used virt-manager to create a virtual floppy drive (and
controller), confirmed that it appears in the XML, and attached the
VirtIO driver VFD, but the guest is acting as if it doesn't have a
floppy drive at all -- both during installation and after I install
to an emulated IDE disk.
I'm a happy Windows ignoramus, but maybe I can help you along the first
steps of debugging anyway.
What is your exact qemu-kvm command line? Fish it out of libvirt's
GUEST.log.
Try
$ virsh qemu-monitor-command --hmp GUEST 'info qtree'
This should print quite a bit of text. We're looking for the "dev:
isa-fdc" stanza. Here's one for a controller without drives:
dev: isa-fdc, id ""
dev-prop: driveA = <null>
dev-prop: driveB = <null>
dev-prop: bootindexA = -1
dev-prop: bootindexB = -1
isa irq 6
Here's one for a controller with one drive:
dev: isa-fdc, id ""
dev-prop: driveA = floppy0
dev-prop: driveB = <null>
dev-prop: bootindexA = -1
dev-prop: bootindexB = -1
isa irq 6
What do you get?
If you have a drive, look it up in output of:
$ virsh qemu-monitor-command --hmp GUEST 'info block'
For me, it's
floppy0: removable=1 locked=0 tray-open=0 [not inserted]
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