On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:05:06PM +0200, Chris Lalancette wrote:
Yes, you read the subject right; add floppy support to xm internal. Let's just say I didn't do this by choice. In any case, there was a cryptic comment in xenXMParseXMLDisks() that said:
/* Xend (all versions) put the floppy device config * under the hvm (image (os)) block */
What this actually means is that we shouldn't parse the floppy stuff to put it in the "disks =" section of the /etc/xen configuration file, since it doesn't have meaning there. Instead, floppy disks go at the top-level of a Xen config file, like:
fda = '/var/lib/xen/images/floppy.img' fdb = '/var/lib/xen/images/floppy2.img'
That's exactly what this patch does. In combination with a couple of other small patches to virt-install (which I will post to the appropriate list), I was able to use a floppy disk to hold the kickstart for a fully virtualized Xen guest install.
Sorry, this patch is no use - there is a stack of patches pending review which re-write the XM and XenD driver's XML handling from scratch to use the new generic domain XML APIs. The floppy stuff will have to stack on top of that: http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-July/msg00084.html Regards, Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|