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From: Mark van Dijk <lists+xen@internecto.net>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Can't write to floppy image (fda)
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:41:21 +0200
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On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:29:29 +0200
Oskar Senft <osk@senft-net.com> wrote:

> > last idea I have:
> > fda = [ 'rw:/opt/xen/floppy' ]
> > fda = [ '/opt/xen/floppy,rw' ]
> > fda = [ '/opt/xen/floppy:rw' ]  
> 
> Xen seems to not like this parameter to be in "list" style at all. As
> soon as I start with a '[' it errors with this:
> 
> Error: 'list' object has no attribute 'startswith'
> 
> I guess I'll have to dig into the Xen source code to see what's going
> on there. Does anyone have an idea where to start looking?


No idea, you could grep -rIs 'fda' but in all honesty I thought this
mailing list would be the right place. 

So I added xen-devel as a recepient, perhaps there is somebody reading
this who can help you with how to configure a floppy drive image?

Mark