1. Operations
2. vcenter
3. vm
4. hardware
5. floppy

## vcenter vm hardware floppy: disconnect

Disconnects a virtual floppy drive of a powered-on virtual machine from its backing. The virtual device is still present and its backing configuration is unchanged, but from the perspective of the guest operating system, the floppy drive is not connected to its backing resource.

For a powered-off virtual machine, the update operation may be used to configure the virtual floppy floppy to start in the disconnected state when the virtual machine is powered on.

### Request:

#### HTTP request

POST https://{server}/rest/vcenter/vm/{vm}/hardware/floppy/{floppy}/disconnect

#### Path Parameters

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
Required
vm | string | Virtual machine identifier.
floppy | string | Virtual floppy drive identifier.

### Response:

#### HTTP Status Code: 200

None

#### Errors:

HTTP Status Code | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
500 | error | if the system reports an error while responding to the request.
404 | not_found | if the virtual machine or virtual floppy drive is not found.
400 | already_in_desired_state | if the virtual floppy drive is already disconnected.
400 | not_allowed_in_current_state | if the virtual machine is not powered on.
400 | resource_busy | if the virtual machine is busy performing another operation.
400 | resource_inaccessible | if the virtual machine's configuration state cannot be accessed.
503 | service_unavailable | if the system is unable to communicate with a service to complete the request.
401 | unauthenticated | if the user can not be authenticated.
403 | unauthorized | if the user doesn't have the required privileges.