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Re: [Xen-devel] xl vs. xm: floppy support

To: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] xl vs. xm: floppy support
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 10:38:36 +0000
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On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 09:37 +0000, Christoph Egger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> when I want to boot a guest from a floppy then
> this works with 'xm/xend' but not with 'xl'.
> 
> An example guest config line is this:
> 
> fda = '/data/images/guests/XPmode64/Win764.flp'

Looks like there is no floppy disk support in libxl at all :-/. I guess
noone missed it up until now.

Adding it probably wouldn't be too hard, but it is too late for 4.1.0,
we should definitely queue this work up for 4.2 and consider for a 4.1.1
backport.

Ian.


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