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

[Michael DeHaan <mdehaan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Cole Robinson wrote:
> Michael DeHaan wrote:
>   
> > 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
> >
> >     
>
> Actually this may be fixed upstream:
>
> http://hg.et.redhat.com/cgi-bin/hg-virt.cgi/applications/virtinst--devel/rev/fd4baa6410d8
>
> Can you try an upstream checkout?
>
> Thanks,
> Cole
>
>   

Great!

Absolutely.

Do you know when that is on schedule to be backported to F10 and/or EL 
5? (Yes, I know F11 is out soon enough, but mainly I'm
interested in EL).

I typically do that with each release (i.e. upstream bugs get released 
for all OS's) but wasn't sure what the policy was for virtinst.

--Michael



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