There's no need for the floppy device code to be running in the VMM. Researchers have pointed this out for a long time: Eurosys 2012: http://dl.acm.org/citatio

There's no need for the floppy device code to be running in the VMM. Researchers have pointed this out for a long time: Eurosys 2012: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2168851 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2168851