Create Hardware Floppy Deprecated
Adds a virtual floppy drive to the virtual machine.
Request
URLURL
Path Parameters
Path Parameters
Virtual machine identifier. The parameter must be an identifier for the resource type: VirtualMachine.
Header Parameters
Header Parameters
Required session ID, acquired from Create Session API under CIS product
vmware-api-session-id example
"b00db39f948d13ea1e59b4d6fce56389"
Request Body
This is a request body class for an operation.
{
"spec": {
"allow_guest_control": false,
"backing": {
"host_device": "string",
"image_file": "string",
"type": "IMAGE_FILE"
},
"start_connected": false
}
}
Authentication
Response
Response BodyResponse Body
Virtual floppy drive identifier. The result will be an identifier for the resource type: com.vmware.vcenter.vm.hardware.Floppy.
{
"value": "string"
}
Virtual floppy drive identifier. The result will be an identifier for the resource type: com.vmware.vcenter.vm.hardware.Floppy.
Errors
com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.not_allowed_in_current_state : if the virtual machine is not powered off.
com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.unauthorized : if the user doesn’t have the required privileges.
com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.error : if the system reported that the floppy device was created but was unable to confirm the creation because the identifier of the new device could not be determined. if the system reports an error while responding to the request. | com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.unable_to_allocate_resource : if the virtual machine already has the maximum number of supported floppy drives. | com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.resource_busy : if the virtual machine is busy performing another operation. | com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.resource_inaccessible : if the virtual machine’s configuration state cannot be accessed.
com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.service_unavailable : if the system is unable to communicate with a service to complete the request.
‘Default’ means this response is used for all HTTP codes that are not covered individually for this operation.
Code Samples
cURL Command
Vendor Extensions
x-vmw-doc-new-method: post
x-vmw-doc-new-path: /api/vcenter/vm/{vm}/hardware/floppy
x-vmw-doc-operation: create