Re: [Qemu-discuss] floppy disk icon

[Bodo Eggert]

On Thu, 17 Nov 2016, golinux wrote:

> Thanks for the quick response!
> 
> On 2016-11-17 11:14, Brian Candler wrote:
> > On 17/11/2016 15:41, golinux wrote:
> > > 
> > > Why does qemu insist on putting a floppy icon on the desktop and entering
> > > a menu item for a non-existent floppy in Thunar?
> > 
> > I think you'll find qemu does not put any icons anywhere.  It just
> > emulates the hardware of a PC.  The window environment inside the
> > guest OS draws the icons.  But qemu can emulate a floppy drive, and
> > this may be detected by the guest OS.
> > 
> > >   This file does not exist on the imaged system but pops up in qemu.
> > > 
> > > hwinfo --short --floppy
> > > 
> > > floppy:
> > >   /dev/fd0            Floppy Disk

> $ ps auxwww | grep qemu-system-i386
> <user>    2323  2.1 13.9 712076 560872 ?       SLl  11:40   0:51
> qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm -m 512 -cdrom
> /home/snapshot/devuan-20161116_2216.iso -soundhw hda -smp cores=2,threads=2
> <user>    6786  0.0  0.0   4560  2192 pts/0    S+   12:20   0:00 grep
> qemu-system-i386

I think I remember: By default, you have an empty floppy drive, and using 
the console, you can load an image into that drive.

On the X11 VGA console, you can switch to the console usinf Ctrl-Alt-2 
(back with Ctrl-Alt-1).

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14165158/how-to-switch-to-qemu-monitor-console-when-running-with-curses