On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 09:20:40PM -0400, John Snow wrote: > 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.
On real machines, 1.44MB floppy drives were very common. It was exceptionally rare to see 2.88MB floppy drives though. There is a risk that changing the default to an exotic piece of hardware will expose quirks in guest Operating Systems. -Kevin
