On 2016-11-17 14:27, Brian Candler wrote:
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.
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Thanks for solving the mystery of the phantom floppy icon. Would be
nice if that patch were officially applied. (Hint, hint) But in any
case, I now know why it's there and what can be done to remove it. I
wonder why that didn't show up when I searched the archives before
posting . . .
See you around and thanks for qemu and the great support. :)
golinux