Re: [Xen-users] åå: Re: Is there any way to attach floppy image under Xen 4.1?

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know about xm, but I did say in my first response "you could
always use a wrapper script around the dm".

Ian.


On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 10:55 +0800, kevin.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi Ian,
>  
>      Thank you for your relpy!
>      Because upstream qemu does not support vhd backing file,  we have
> to use qemu-dm and xm for vm management.
>      Maybe my configuration is not correct , or is there any way that
> can attach floppy disk with xm command?
>  
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Best Regards
>  
> 
> From: Ian Campbell
> Date: 2014-04-24 16:46
> To: kevin.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: xen-users
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Is there any way to attach floppy image under
> Xen 4.1?
> On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 11:31 +0800, kevin.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >  
> >       We have encountered a problem with attaching floppy device
> into
> > HVM domU under Xen 4.1
> >       I guess if floppy is supported by Xen 4.1 then ,the disk
> should
> > be:
> >      disk = [ 'file:/root/1.img,fd0:floppy,w' ]
> >      However,  if I start the vm, the following error will be
> > prompted:
> >           Error: Unable to find number for device (fd0) 
> >      
> >       Does anyone have such problem before?   
>  
> I don't know about Xen 4.1 but for modern Xen with the xl toolstack
> then
> you can pass arbitrary arguments to the device model using
> device_model_args in your config file, which should enable you to pass
> the necessary options.
>  
> I've no idea if xm supported the same thing or not, you could always
> use
> a wrapper script around the dm I suppose.
>  
> Ian.
>  
>  
>  
>  



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