From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 13 01:08:25 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 47D548C7 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2013 01:08:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pa0-f43.google.com (mail-pa0-f43.google.com [209.85.220.43]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1E3612643 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2013 01:08:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f43.google.com with SMTP id fa1so4001287pad.2 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 17:08:24 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=qMReRZ98ljkhmikQ+BD55u7FpHuk61UeeLUEJkBCE+o=; b=SPhcDpZOnRZxs9z74NxCIs78Mmk6NNOgU/mOWOZb0nHvL9+N9Rq2m+qAMbTPpTgeg2 b5U5r8KnIkqNPANWLBRehz51ILnBySh1Mc6dt/bc02oEt9Zpsw28L80Dg4UZxtzQSgtg hPBZV++iqQo7aOclt6b3iFZxGrOr0GGFxJpMhmcMwGtcz2BY97lZ5XXYKIdSZanm7JQo VTLC7JCRNGItsA1DAc077iQ4yjlSCMuy6TSZwMfvwjlm0i2Jt4tYJ4jciV/PdjpOUP3s Mw7GT+ncvVJdtuSco5/TaWikLDzZDBmbxXDb81W6V8g1e2ZCOPfsZ4XamiUgipF82K9+ encg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQl2h60GGOX2w911zRK6dL9KMDrIb79UNCmsAKgIQqulRFoc/Jghmgby80Ve09rAGMzIOGMV X-Received: by 10.68.235.72 with SMTP id uk8mr38601742pbc.93.1384304904012; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 17:08:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from Michaels-MacBook-Pro.local (c-98-246-202-204.hsd1.or.comcast.net. [98.246.202.204]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id qn1sm25958953pbc.34.2013.11.12.17.08.22 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 12 Nov 2013 17:08:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5282D105.7000804@callfortesting.org> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 17:08:21 -0800 From: Michael Dexter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Abhishek Gupta (LIS)" Subject: Re: Use of Floppy Drive with FreeBSD Virtual Machines References: <528128E2.6000006@callfortesting.org> <8c6f3f012fc94908bf6a40cdd0d235d7@BL2PR03MB210.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> <5281C6F9.8040109@callfortesting.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 01:08:25 -0000 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: "Strictly speaking, it depends on the device: some can restart with a function-level reset, but more than likely they would require a power-cycle, and most systems don't provide the ability to power-cycle an individual card." Michael