Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Do not emulate a floppy drive when -nodefaults

[Markus Armbruster]

Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:

> On 14/05/2015 13:47, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> > I would be OK with a new property too, as we could set it from
>> > libxl or libvirt. Anybody would be happy to pick this one up or should I
>> > do it?
>>
>> Pls go ahead, I can merge it in the pc tree.
>
> Note that because of the "-drive if=none,id=fdd1 -global
> isa-fdc.driveA=fdd1" trick to create a floppy drive without if=floppy,
> the default should remain on---at least for a few releases---even if
> -nodefaults is passed.

Unless we bite the bullet and add the magic to make -global
isa-fdc... auto-set the option to on.