From: Peter Maydell <1923663@bugs.launchpad.net>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 1923663] [NEW] Can't(?) disable default floppy drive any more in qemu 6.0
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 12:36:12 -0000 [thread overview]
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On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 at 08:07, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
> In my opinion, management applications are better off with -nodefaults.
> It's easier to understand than the complicated mess I'm going to
> describe under "Long answer" below.
Is there a mechanism to get QEMU to tell me "what are all the
long options I need to specify explicitly now to get the same
behaviour that I had before I started passing -nodefaults" ?
Otherwise it's a pretty painful route to suggest that people
go down (though I agree that for a management app as opposed to
an individual user it's probably a worthwhile route in the long
term).
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Title:
Can't(?) disable default floppy drive any more in qemu 6.0
Status in QEMU:
New
Bug description:
There's a documented change in qemu 6.0:
https://qemu-project.gitlab.io/qemu/system/removed-features.html
#floppy-controllers-drive-properties-removed-in-6-0
where you can't configure floppy controller device properties with
-global any more. However, there's a thing you could do with the old
parameter which I can't figure out a way to do with the documented
replacement. openQA passed exactly this argument:
-global isa-fdc.driveA=
and that has the effect of removing/disabling the default floppy
drive/controller. If you just run `qemu-system-i686` (no other args)
you'll see the VM briefly try to boot from a floppy drive; if you run
`qemu-system-i686 -global isa-fdc.driveA=` (with an earlier version of
qemu, obviously) you'll see it does not do so.
I can't see a way to do this with `-device floppy`. Going by the docs,
the equivalent should be:
-device floppy,unit=0,drive=
but that does not seem to have the same effect. If you run `qemu-
system-i686 -device floppy,unit=0,drive=`, it still tries to boot from
a floppy drive.
I see there's a -nodefaults option that disables *all* default
devices, but I don't think that's what we want here either. We might
want the other default devices, we just don't want the floppy drive.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-15 12:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-13 20:10 [Bug 1923663] [NEW] Can't(?) disable default floppy drive any more in qemu 6.0 Adam Williamson
2021-04-14 7:06 ` Markus Armbruster
2021-04-15 12:36 ` Peter Maydell [this message]
2021-04-15 12:36 ` Peter Maydell
2021-04-15 14:53 ` Markus Armbruster
2021-04-15 9:04 ` [Bug 1923663] " Kashyap Chamarthy
2021-05-15 14:05 ` Thomas Huth
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