[Qemu-devel] Patch: 0.9.0-Fix floppy detect with linux host

[wanderer]

When using host drive (e.g., /dev/fd0) qemu does not detect physical drive if 
it is empty. This causes a Windows guest, specifically w2k, to drop the 
floppy drive altogether at start-up.

The need to see the disk image before determining the emulated drive type 
makes sense for images, but not much for a host drive. The attached patch 
short-circuits the initialization process to allow host drive types to reach 
the emulated controller hardware. It has been tested and works for W98, W2k, 
and Linux guest images.

qemu-0.9.0-flpy.patch
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