Bug? Floppy still detected by Ubuntu despite not being mounted at startup.

[Mugsy]

I'm not sure if I stumbled across a bug or not, but I installed "Ubuntu 22 LTS" to a VM and noticed it was mounting a Floppy on startup (I don't have a floppy drive. "Workstation" mounts a Virtual Floppy by default.)

I shutdown the VM, went into the Settings for my Ubuntu install, unchecked "Mount at Startup" of the Floppy, relaunched Ubuntu, and the floppy icon is still there (unmounted, but still detected.)

Either I'm doing something wrong, misunderstanding something, or uncovered a bug.

[battybishop]

Check out the vmx file and remove all floppy disk enabled statements, you'll need to power off the VM then change to disabled and floppy disk should disappear  

[Mugsy]

Sorry for the late reply.

I tried (first) setting "Detect at startup" to False, which didn't work. Then I tried completely removing the two lines regarding "floppy0", and that too didn't work.

I checked the settings again, unchecked "Connect at Power On", checked the box for "Use physical drive", and that didn't work either.

Ubuntu still insists on showing a Floppy on the toolbar (Ubuntu is set to display only detected drives. I do not have a floppy and it is not enabled in the BIOS.)

I'm stumped.

FOLLOW-UP: Ah! I completely removed "Floppy-drive" from the list of hardware on the left and that removed the icon. Strange the the extra step was necessary.

[battybishop]

Which version of vSphere are you working on? Can you share some screenshots?

[Mugsy]

I not using "vSphere". This was with VMware Workstation Player 17.

[battybishop]

Apologies, pasted previous message to the wrong thread.

I'm assuming you've tried just removing the device

My understanding is that by having the floppy in the config will mean it's in the BIOS and the Ubuntu will configure the device. If you don't need the floppy (and really why would you) remove it from the base config.