[Users] Second cdrom device

[Cristian Falcas]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:29 AM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 11/13/2012 10:27 PM, Cristian Falcas wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> Sorry, but I couldn't find anything related on how to add floppy images
>> to the virtual machines.
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>> Any pointers on where to look?
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> stand on a VM and click run-once, under boot options
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>> Best regards
>>
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>> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com
>> <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>>     On 11/06/2012 12:23 AM, Cristian Falcas wrote:
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>>         Does the floppy image needs to be 1.5MB, or can it take any size?
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>>     i suggest checking :)
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>>         On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Andrew Cathrow
>>         <acathrow at redhat.com <mailto:acathrow at redhat.com>
>>         <mailto:acathrow at redhat.com <mailto:acathrow at redhat.com>>> wrote:
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>>              Using a virtual floppy is probably the easiest way and it's
>>         well
>>              supported in the UI and API.
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>>                  Hi,
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>>                  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.
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>>                  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
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