Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 19:37:13 +0000 From: "Abhishek Gupta (LIS)" <abgupta@microsoft.com> To: Michael Dexter <editor@callfortesting.org>, "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Use of Floppy Drive with FreeBSD Virtual Machines Message-ID: <8c6f3f012fc94908bf6a40cdd0d235d7@BL2PR03MB210.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> In-Reply-To: <528128E2.6000006@callfortesting.org> References: <bbe6d48d21024e199eebb47601a8f0f7@BL2PR03MB210.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> <528128E2.6000006@callfortesting.org>
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Hi Michael, Thanks so much for replying. Some follow up questions: a) Is it not possible to use an ISO file to do the BIOS updates? b) I did not quite understand your second comment on why PCI pass through may promote floppy disk use. Please could you elaborate a bit more? Thanks again for your help with this. Regards, Abhishek -----Original Message----- From: Michael Dexter [mailto:editor@callfortesting.org] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 10:59 AM To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org; Abhishek Gupta (LIS) Subject: Re: Use of Floppy Drive with FreeBSD Virtual Machines 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" >
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