[et-mgmt-tools] virtinst ... proper API way to add a floppy drive?
Cole Robinson
crobinso at redhat.com
Wed Apr 1 19:22:51 UTC 2009
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
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