On 01/19/2016 11:51 PM, John Snow wrote: > The 2.88 drive is more suitable as a default because > it can still read 1.44 images correctly, but the reverse > is not true. > > Since there exist virtio-win drivers that are shipped on > 2.88 floppy images, this patch will allow VMs booted without > a floppy disk inserted to later insert a 2.88MB floppy and > have that work. > > This patch has been tested with msdos, freedos, fedora, > windows 8 and windows 10 without issue: if problems do > arise for certain guests being unable to cope with 2.88MB > drives as the default, they are in the minority and can use > type=144 as needed (or insert a proper boot medium and omit > type=144/288 or use type=auto) to obtain different drive types. > > As icing, the default will remain auto/144 for any pre-2.6 > machine types, hopefully minimizing the impact of this change > in legacy hw to basically zero. > > Signed-off-by: John Snow <js...@redhat.com> > --- > hw/block/fdc.c | 2 +- > include/hw/compat.h | 4 ++++ > 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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