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... Thanks James _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hi James, On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:10 PM, James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au> 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 _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Sunday May 25 2008 11:10:37 pm James Harper 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...Not sure of the Windows syntax for a floppy - fda? Maybe something like this in your domu config: disk = [ ''phy:/dev/fd0,fda,w'', ... ], or disk = [ ''file:floppy.img,fda,w'' ... ] I just noticed that my Fedora system doesn''t have the /dev/fd0* devices, tho'' my SuSE system does. Maybe they are hotplugged. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Sunday May 25 2008 11:51:09 pm you wrote:> I just noticed that my Fedora system doesn''t have the /dev/fd0* devices, > tho'' my SuSE system does. Maybe they are hotplugged.Brain fart - my Fedora system is a laptop - it doesn''t have a floppy. Doh! _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> 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... >Add fda=''/iso/winxp.img'' to your domu conf. Then windows has a floppy :) jlc _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> > > 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... > > > > Add fda=''/iso/winxp.img'' to your domu conf. Then windows has a floppy:) Hmmm... I just tried that and now the DomU doesn''t boot, the screen just goes black after the bios finishes... any suggestions? Thanks James _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> > Add fda=''/iso/winxp.img'' to your domu conf. Then windows has afloppy> :) > > Hmmm... I just tried that and now the DomU doesn''t boot, the screenjust> goes black after the bios finishes... any suggestions? >Fixed it myself. I put a filesystem on the floppy disk and now it boots just fine. Thanks for the fda= clue :) James _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> > Add fda=''/iso/winxp.img'' to your domu conf. Then windows has a floppy:) Any idea how I can trigger a disk change event? I need to be able to swap disks... Thanks James _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Monday May 26 2008 03:00:37 am James Harper wrote:> > Add fda=''/iso/winxp.img'' to your domu conf. Then windows has a floppy > > > :) > > Any idea how I can trigger a disk change event? I need to be able to > swap disks...Probably the same problem as cds. I have had *some* luck with ''xm block-{at,de}tach'', but more so with img files than physical devices. Sometimes attaching an img file, then switching to a physical device works. It would be interesting if you are getting a floppy mounted while your pv drivers are loaded, since I still cannot read a dvd with them loaded. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users