This is one of my biggest rants as a VMWare admin. Every VM I build, I have to boot to BIOS and disable the drive there. Why is it even enabled? Do VM manufacturers have a large number of government or corporate customers for whom a floppy interface is necessary? I haven't had to use them in almost 10 years; even RAID drivers are downloadable for easy use with any CD or USB drive, and even slipstreamed into the OS install.
Unfortunately I'm always working with established systems, so I can't push this feedback during the sales process.
bonzini
If that's disabling the floppy as a boot drive, we do that in KVM by default. :) But the device is still there, even if you disable booting it from there.
stephengillieOP
Yeah, I mean going into the BIOS setting for Floppy Drive and hitting + until it rotates around various disk dimensions, and finally says [Disabled]. :)
That's the only way I've found to remove it from the list of drives that WMI's win32_physicaldisk class presents.
Unfortunately I'm always working with established systems, so I can't push this feedback during the sales process.