Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 10/10] fdc: change default drive to 288

2015-07-06 Thread John Snow
On 07/05/2015 10:53 AM, Kevin O'Connor wrote: On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 09:20:40PM -0400, 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

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 10/10] fdc: change default drive to 288

2015-07-05 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 09:20:40PM -0400, 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

[Qemu-devel] [RFC 10/10] fdc: change default drive to 288

2015-06-30 Thread John Snow
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