Use of Floppy Drive with FreeBSD Virtual Machines

[Abhishek Gupta (LIS)]

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 at callfortesting.org] 
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 10:59 AM
To: freebsd-virtualization at 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
> 
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