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From: "Denis V. Lunev" <den@openvz.org>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for 2.5? 1/1] DSDT: add floppy-related
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Yuri Pudgorodskiy <yur@virtuozzo.com>, Roman Kagan <rkagan@virtuozzo.com>, Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>

On 12/14/2015 12:28 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
> On 14/12/2015 10:26, Denis V. Lunev wrote:
>> this was a question actually.
>>
>> Yes, this is not a regression but user observable bug. The floppy
>> is not available in Windows UEFI guests and it is not that easy
>> to get VirtIO drivers in this case installed especially for root
>> disk.
> Isn't a CD enough for everything except Windows XP (EOLed) and 2003 (not
> supporting UEFI anyway)?
>
> Paolo
The problem comes from unattended installation. As far as we
have tried unattended answers file should come on USB flash
or on floppy.

In the other case the ISO with Windows distro should be
modified. This option we can not afford as we do not control
ISO's on the client side :(

Den