Phantom floppy in vmware player

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Hi,

I have just installed 12.3 under vmplayer 5.02.

On the hardware definition there is no floppy, however the 12.3 guest
sees it.

Host:


Telcontar:/data/storage_b/Virtual Machines 2/OpenSUSE 12.3 # grep -i
floppy OpenSUSE\ 12.3.vmx
floppy0.present = "FALSE"
Telcontar:/data/storage_b/Virtual Machines 2/OpenSUSE 12.3 #

Guest:


eleanor3:~ # hwinfo --floppy
02: Floppy 00.0: 10603 Floppy Disk
[Created at floppy.120]
Unique ID: sPPV.oZ89vuho4Y3
Parent ID: rdCR.3wRL2_g4d2B
Hardware Class: floppy
Model: "Floppy Disk"
Device File: /dev/fd0
Size: 3.5 ''
Size: 2880 sectors a 512 bytes
Capacity: 0 GB (1474560 bytes)
Drive status: no medium
Config Status: cfg=yes, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #1 (Floppy disk controller)
eleanor3:~ #

And xfce shows the floppy icon.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)

2

During bootup, IIRC you can go into the virtual BIOS and disable the virtual floppy.

TSU

3

On 2013-05-02 04:56, tsu2 wrote:
>
> During bootup, IIRC you can go into the virtual BIOS and disable the
> virtual floppy.

You are right. The virtual machine has no floppy “hardware”, but the
emulated bios did have one configured.

:open_mouth:

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)