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Re: [Xen-users] Floppy disk in Windows DomU

To: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Floppy disk in Windows DomU
From: "Todd Deshane" <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 23:27:25 -0400
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Hi James,

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:10 PM, James Harper
<james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to give DomU a floppy disk of some sort? I
> need to try and load some drivers at the text mode install step of
> installing Windows...
>

There is a way to copy the floppy image to a CD image. Could you then pass
the CD image to the Windows VM and then tell windows where to find it?

Cheers,
Todd

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