Re: [Qemu-discuss] floppy disk icon

[Brian Candler]

On 17/11/2016 18:54, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> I think I remember: By default, you have an empty floppy drive, and using
> the console, you can load an image into that drive.
Also see from the qemu manpage:

       -nodefaults
           Don't create default devices. Normally, QEMU sets the 
default devices like serial port,
           parallel port, virtual console, monitor device, VGA adapter, 
floppy and CD-ROM drive and
           others. The "-nodefaults" option will disable all those 
default devices.

However if you specify that, you'll need to specify a whole load of 
other args to create all those other devices.

I see someone once provided a patch to disable just the floppy:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-05/msg02919.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-05/msg02928.html

... but as far as I can tell it didn't get applied.