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

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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
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