VmHardwareFloppyBackingInfo
The Floppy.BackingInfo structure contains information about the physical resource backing a virtual floppy drive.
Properties
Flag indicating whether the virtual floppy drive is configured to automatically detect a suitable host device. This field is optional and it is only relevant when the value of Floppy.BackingInfo.type is HOST_DEVICE.
Name of the host device backing the virtual floppy drive.
This field will be unset if Floppy.BackingInfo.auto-detect is true and the virtual floppy drive is not connected or no suitable device is available on the host.
Path of the image file backing the virtual floppy drive. This field is optional and it is only relevant when the value of Floppy.BackingInfo.type is IMAGE_FILE.
The Floppy.BackingType enumerated type defines the valid backing types for a virtual floppy drive.
IMAGE_FILE : Virtual floppy drive is backed by an image file.
HOST_DEVICE : Virtual floppy drive is backed by a device on the host where the virtual machine is running.
CLIENT_DEVICE : Virtual floppy drive is backed by a device on the client that is connected to the virtual machine console.
Possible values are: IMAGE_FILE , HOST_DEVICE , CLIENT_DEVICE
JSON Example
{
"type": "IMAGE_FILE"
}
