From 4812fa27fa75bce89738a82a191755853dd88408 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Snow Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 15:51:05 -0500 Subject: fdc: change auto fallback drive for ISA FDC to 288 The 2.88 drive is more suitable as a default because it can still read 1.44 images correctly, but the reverse is not true. Since there exist virtio-win drivers that are shipped on 2.88 floppy images, this patch will allow VMs booted without a floppy disk inserted to later insert a 2.88MB floppy and have that work. This patch has been tested with msdos, freedos, fedora, windows 8 and windows 10 without issue: if problems do arise for certain guests being unable to cope with 2.88MB drives as the default, they are in the minority and can use type=144 as needed (or insert a proper boot medium and omit type=144/288 or use type=auto) to obtain different drive types. As icing, the default will remain auto/144 for any pre-2.6 machine types, hopefully minimizing the impact of this change in legacy hw to basically zero. Reviewed-by: Eric Blake Signed-off-by: John Snow Message-id: 1453495865-9649-13-git-send-email-jsnow@redhat.com --- include/hw/compat.h | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/hw/compat.h') diff --git a/include/hw/compat.h b/include/hw/compat.h index 491884ba49..2ebe739fcb 100644 --- a/include/hw/compat.h +++ b/include/hw/compat.h @@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ #define HW_COMPAT_2_5 \ {\ + .driver = "isa-fdc",\ + .property = "fallback",\ + .value = "144",\ + },{\ .driver = "pvscsi",\ .property = "x-old-pci-configuration",\ .value = "on",\ -- cgit v1.2.3