[fedora-virt] Virtual CD-ROM & floppy problems in F16

[Scott Dowdle]

Greetings,

----- Original Message -----
> 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.
> 
> 2.  I am unable to attach an ISO file to the virtual CD-ROM.  Clicking
>     on the "Attach" button in virt-manager has no effect.  The only way
>     I've been able to achieve this is to shut down the guest and delete
>     and recreate the CD-ROM.
> 
> Is anyone seeing anything like this?  Any ideas what could be going
> on?

I haven't tried using real floppies in some time much less virtual ones so I'm not familiar with #1... but on #2, it is a reported bug.  See:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749928

TYL,
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