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Bug 666956 - Use floppy image for only Windows express install
Use floppy image for only Windows express install
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-boxes
Classification: Applications
Component: installer
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Boxes maintainer(s)
GNOME Boxes maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-12-28 16:25 UTC by Zeeshan Ali
Modified: 2016-03-31 14:02 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Use floppy image for only Windows express install (12.88 KB, patch)
2011-12-28 16:25 UTC, Zeeshan Ali 		accepted-commit_now Details | Review
Use floppy image for only Windows express install (12.88 KB, patch)
2012-01-10 15:05 UTC, Zeeshan Ali 		committed Details | Review
Forgotten rename of image file from commit b4a62fd (1.13 KB, patch)
2012-01-11 23:33 UTC, Zeeshan Ali 		committed Details | Review

Description Zeeshan Ali 2011-12-28 16:25:13 UTC 
Use floppy image for only Windows express install.
Comment 1 Zeeshan Ali 2011-12-28 16:25:15 UTC 
Created attachment 204290 [details] [review]
Use floppy image for only Windows express install

The underlying image remains the same for both Fedora and Windows but
now we tell libvirt to emulate a USB drive using that image for Fedora.
According to Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>, floppy support
on Linux isn't reliable enough to depend on and having a floppy drive
can easily lead to weird kernel crashes.
Comment 2 Zeeshan Ali 2011-12-28 16:26:35 UTC 
The only issue with this patch currently is: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-December/msg01041.html
Comment 3 Zeeshan Ali 2012-01-10 15:05:37 UTC 
Created attachment 204946 [details] [review]
Use floppy image for only Windows express install

The underlying image remains the same for both Fedora and Windows but
now we tell libvirt to emulate a USB drive using that image for Fedora.
According to Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>, floppy support
on Linux isn't reliable enough to depend on and having a floppy drive
can easily lead to weird kernel crashes.
Comment 4 Marc-Andre Lureau 2012-01-10 15:06:42 UTC 
Review of attachment 204290 [details] [review]:

ack
Comment 5 Zeeshan Ali 2012-01-10 15:20:17 UTC 
Attachment 204946 [details] pushed as b4a62fd - Use floppy image for only Windows express install
Comment 6 Christophe Fergeau 2012-01-11 15:43:02 UTC 
You forgot to add data/disk.img and to make the related changes to data/Makefile.am
Comment 7 Zeeshan Ali 2012-01-11 23:33:08 UTC 
Created attachment 205054 [details] [review]
Forgotten rename of image file from commit b4a62fd
Comment 8 Marc-Andre Lureau 2012-01-12 01:17:09 UTC 
Review of attachment 205054 [details] [review]:

ack
Comment 9 Zeeshan Ali 2012-01-12 01:27:00 UTC 
Attachment 205054 [details] pushed as 4233347 - Forgotten rename of image file from commit b4a62fd