[et-mgmt-tools] virtinst ... proper API way to add a floppy drive?

[Michael DeHaan]

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