Connect Hardware Floppy
Connects a virtual floppy drive of a powered-on virtual machine to its backing. Connecting the virtual device makes the backing accessible from the perspective of the guest operating system. For a powered-off virtual machine, the Floppy.update operation may be used to configure the virtual floppy drive to start in the connected state when the virtual machine is powered on.
Request
URLURL
https://{api_host}/rest/vcenter/vm/{vm}/hardware/floppy/{floppy}/connect
Parameters
Parameters
string
vm
Required
Virtual machine identifier.
The parameter must be an identifier for the resource type: VirtualMachine.
string
floppy
Required
Virtual floppy drive identifier.
The parameter must be an identifier for the resource type: com.vmware.vcenter.vm.hardware.Floppy.
Header Parameters
Header Parameters
string
vmware-api-session-id
Required
Required session ID, acquired from Create Session API under CIS product
vmware-api-session-id Example
b00db39f948d13ea1e59b4d6fce56389cURL Command
curl -X POST -H "vmware-api-session-id: b00db39f948d13ea1e59b4d6fce56389" https://{api_host}/rest/vcenter/vm/{vm}/hardware/floppy/{floppy}/connect
Errors
401
com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.unauthenticated : if the user can not be authenticated. | com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.unauthorized : if the user doesn't have the required privileges.
404
com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.error : if the system reports an error while responding to the request. | com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.not_found : if the virtual machine or virtual floppy drive is not found. | com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.resource_inaccessible : if the virtual machine's configuration state cannot be accessed.
409
com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.already_in_desired_state : if the virtual floppy drive is already connected. | com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.not_allowed_in_current_state : if the virtual machine is not powered on. | com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.resource_busy : if the virtual machine is busy performing another operation.
503
com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.service_unavailable : if the system is unable to communicate with a service to complete the request.
default
'Default' means this response is used for all HTTP codes that are not covered individually for this operation.
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