From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41333) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXu57-0006xr-RI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:11:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXu56-0003yy-2B for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:11:01 -0400 Message-ID: <55085209.5030206@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:10:49 -0400 From: Max Reitz MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1426608140-20592-1-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com> <87zj7bli7i.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> In-Reply-To: <87zj7bli7i.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] raw-posix: Deprecate host floppy passthrough List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Markus Armbruster , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, stefanha@redhat.com, qemu-block@nongnu.org On 2015-03-17 at 12:08, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Forgot to mention: > > 1. For 2.3! > > 2. Testing without a physical floppy: > > # > /dev/fd0 > # chown armbru /dev/fd0 > > $ qemu-system-x86_64 -nodefaults -fda /dev/fd0 > qemu-system-x86_64: -fda /dev/fd0: Host floppy pass-through is deprecated > Support for it will be removed in a future release. > WARNING: Image format was not specified for '/dev/fd0' and probing guessed raw. > Automatically detecting the format is dangerous for raw images, write operations on block 0 will be restricted. > Specify the 'raw' format explicitly to remove the restrictions. Or just $ qemu-img create -f qcow2 floppy.qcow2 1440K $ qemu-system-x86_64 -fda host_floppy:floppy.qcow2 qemu-system-x86_64: -fda host_floppy:floppy.qcow2: Host floppy pass-through is deprecated Support for it will be removed in a future release. Max > > The long lines are ugly, but not this patch's fault :)