On 11/12/13 1:07 PM, Abhishek Gupta (LIS) wrote:
Thanks for the response Michael! I understand now. Just wanted to let
you know that Hyper-V Gen2 VMs do not have a virtual FDD.
On the topic of passing a virtual FDD to a VM for a passed-through PCI*
card BIOS update, a bhyve developer wrote:
Thanks for the insight Michael. Duly noted.
Abhishek
From: Michael Dexter edi...@callfortesting.org
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 5:08 PM
To: Abhishek Gupta (LIS)
Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Use of Floppy Drive with FreeBSD
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Abhishek Gupta (LIS) abgu...@microsoft.com
wrote:
Hi everyone,
Is anybody using floppy disk drives with virtual machines on Hyper-V or
any other hypervisor? I would be interested in knowing both common and
obscure scenarios. Please let me know if you have
kinda odd, as you cant even buy a floppy disk anymore
Not so!
I just bought one package of this as a gag gift for a friend's birthday:
http://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-3-5In-1-44MB-Pre-Fmt-10Pk/dp/B511BI/
Paying $10 for ~15MB of storage was a mindblowing experience :)
Abhishek,
My single use case this last few years has been for BIOS updates and
given that one could use PCI pass-through to expose say, an LSI storage
controller to a virtual machine, there may indeed be a use case.
Michael Dexter
On 11/11/13 10:19 AM, Abhishek Gupta (LIS) wrote:
Hi everyone,
for your help with this.
Regards,
Abhishek
-Original Message-
From: Michael Dexter [mailto:edi...@callfortesting.org]
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 10:59 AM
To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org; Abhishek Gupta (LIS)
Subject: Re: Use of Floppy Drive with FreeBSD Virtual Machines
Abhishek
Hello Abhishek,
On 11/11/13 11:37 AM, Abhishek Gupta (LIS) wrote:
Thanks so much for replying. Some follow up questions:
a) Is it not possible to use an ISO file to do the BIOS updates?
I have not.
b) I did not quite understand your second comment on why PCI pass
through may promote
