Re: virtinst ... proper API way to add a floppy drive?

[Michael DeHaan <mdehaan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 12:14:49PM -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>   
> > > This is the core issue - you're giving the floppy a harddisk name
> > >  
> > >       
> > Yeah, I caught that :)
> >
> >     
> > > > guest.disks.append(virtinst.VirtualDisk(device=virtinst.VirtualDisk.DEVICE_FLOPPY, 
> > > > path=floppy_path))
> > > >    
> > > >         
> > > I think you'll need to at least give a device name.
> > >
> > > libvirt fills in the bus, based on device name if you leave it out
> > >  
> > >       
> > The constructor signature for VirtualDisk is...
> >
> > __init__(self, path=None, size=None, transient=False, type=None, device='dis
> > k', driverName=None, driverType=None, readOnly=False, sparse=True, 
> > conn=None, vo
> > lObject=None, volInstall=None, volName=None, bus=None)
> >
> > Which field would I use for specifying the device name?
> >     
>
> Just set
>
>    device=VirtualDisk.DEVICE_FLOPPY
>
> and  virtinst generated the device name
>
> Daniel
>   

Scroll up a bit for my Python line I'm using, I did that :)

Seems like a bug in virtinst then. I'll write it up.

--Michael


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