On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:29 AM, Itamar Heim <iheim@redhat.com> wrote:
On 11/13/2012 10:27 PM, Cristian Falcas wrote:
Hi,

Sorry, but I couldn't find anything related on how to add floppy images
to the virtual machines.

Any pointers on where to look?

stand on a VM and click run-once, under boot options


Best regards


On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Itamar Heim <iheim@redhat.com
<mailto:iheim@redhat.com>> wrote:

    On 11/06/2012 12:23 AM, Cristian Falcas wrote:

        Does the floppy image needs to be 1.5MB, or can it take any size?


    i suggest checking :)





        On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Andrew Cathrow
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        <mailto:acathrow@redhat.com <mailto:acathrow@redhat.com>>> wrote:

             Using a virtual floppy is probably the easiest way and it's
        well
             supported in the UI and API.



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                 *Sent: *Monday, November 5, 2012 6:19:04 PM
                 *Subject: *[Users] Second cdrom device



                 Hi,

                 Can I somehow attach a second cdrom device to a virtual
        machine?
                 I was thinking on adding the virtio drivers for Windows
        OSs this
                 way.

                 Best regards,
                 Cristian

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Hi,

Thank you for your answer.

Here is my experience:

- It seems that Windows will only see the first 1.4MB (or so) from the floppy, even if I attach a bigger file: it was seeing only a few files from the first directory.
The file was created like this:
head -c 50000000 /dev/zero > myimage.vfd
mkfs.vfat myimage.vfd
mount myimage.vfd /mnt/floppy/
mount myimage.vfd /mnt/floppy/
-- copy desired file to the floppy


- It looks that there are no WHQL amd64 drivers (Windows 7 at least didn't accept the drivers). I had to load the i386 ones for the installer.

- You don't need the floppy thing after all: the cdrom can be swapped at install time with the one that has the drivers.

Best regards,
Cristian