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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] What's the next QEMU version after 2.9 ? (or: when
 is a good point in time to get rid of old interfaces)
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Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

  Hi,

> > There is -global, which is actually used by libvirt to configure
> > built-in floppy devices.  But as the name suggests it sets properties
> > globally, i.e. for all instances.  Which works in this specific use
> > case, as there can be only one floppy controller per machine, but I
>=20
> Spec-wise, Can't you have two?

You can have two floppy drives, but they are hooked to the same
controller.  isa-fdc has two properties (driveA and driveB) for that
reason, so -global works even for two floppy drives.

cheers,
  Gerd