From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 11 18:58:50 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8741648 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2013 18:58:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from editor@callfortesting.org) Received: from mail-pb0-f43.google.com (mail-pb0-f43.google.com [209.85.160.43]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9E1702E2A for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2013 18:58:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pb0-f43.google.com with SMTP id md4so5579866pbc.16 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2013 10:58:44 -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 :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=D5WXkN6XVGauR4rgDDn3lA6BcKZBNG8AIFegAFak/No=; b=NHGHagMtp5QjGIHULQ6Pa+7+L5ZctbUegYQi1B27ydQ1IrqmScYxCQcPd8N8UVkFC0 sqKVKUSls1jOZh4QjJsSW8NLqOAGrw0M8fkytKji9vndemUYbCqnRbjtp1hqCSXlnlsk lngyz05Zee+tgpaonrDdCmHBdOY1YUdChGq6PTF0Yz14j4EFZt6I471qP2ylBS5Qf9OT h0kt7XVZMSdcfxUpwVuSrAOrFUzP2/IjYByjHvUZR1fAHmaQRzHaOEcAmGanfnTo5e2K pqai9xbPfBDe9aKQA3jht1anfCqBTI7F6whd+7yZ0nLNOiVdu69Ayschw/c+BArmN3fs rtGQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmcMKRGdr/wDp76UT7eoy2cbjhFzckbhAt9B6UTyeHBbTRNcb1WHHD8oysaxo5e255lKb5x X-Received: by 10.66.139.130 with SMTP id qy2mr32718358pab.73.1384196324170; Mon, 11 Nov 2013 10:58:44 -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 vk17sm37886574pab.5.2013.11.11.10.58.42 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 11 Nov 2013 10:58:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <528128E2.6000006@callfortesting.org> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 10:58:42 -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: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org, "Abhishek Gupta (LIS)" Subject: Re: Use of Floppy Drive with FreeBSD Virtual Machines References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 18:58:50 -0000 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, > > 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 any thoughts in this direction. > > Thanks, > Abhishek Gupta > Program Manager, BSD Integration Services > Microsoft Corporation > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >