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

[Ian Pilcher]

On 01/02/2012 03:43 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> What is your exact qemu-kvm command line?  Fish it out of libvirt's
> GUEST.log.

It's long.  ;-)  It does, however, include the following:

-drive file=/mnt/scratch/software/virt-
drivers/virtio-win-1.1.16.vfd,if=none,id=drive-fdc0-0-0,format=raw
-global isa-fdc.driveA=drive-fdc0
-0-0 -global isa-fdc.bootindexA=3

> $ virsh qemu-monitor-command --hmp GUEST 'info qtree'
> 
> What do you get?

          dev: isa-fdc, id ""
            dev-prop: driveA = drive-fdc0-0-0
            dev-prop: driveB = <null>
            dev-prop: bootindexA = 3
            dev-prop: bootindexB = -1
            isa irq 6

> If you have a drive, look it up in output of:
> 
> $ virsh qemu-monitor-command --hmp GUEST 'info block'

drive-fdc0-0-0: removable=1 locked=0
file=/mnt/scratch/software/virt-drivers/virtio-win-1.1.16.vfd ro=0
drv=raw encrypted=0

Within the guest, Device Manager shows a "Standard floppy disk
controller", but it does not show an attached drive.

I haven't found anything in any of the log files that indicates a
problem.  Weird and annoying.

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