Adding a Floppy Disk Drive
You can add an existing floppy disk drive or floppy disk image to your virtual machine. You can also create a new floppy disk image and add it to the virtual machine.
Note:
Any virtual machine can have only one floppy disk drive.
To add a floppy disk to a virtual machine
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Choose
Configure
from the
Virtual Machine
menu to open Virtual Machine Configuration.
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Click the
Add
button
in the bottom part of the
Virtual Machine Configuration
dialog to launch Add Hardware Assistant.
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In the
Select Device
window, select
Floppy Disk
and click
Continue
.
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In the
Add Floppy Disk
window, select the resource for the new virtual floppy disk and click
Continue
. You can choose one of the following resources for the floppy disk:
-
Real Floppy Disk
. In this case, Assistant will use a real disk to emulate the floppy disk drive.
-
Existing Image File
. In this case, Assistant will use an existing image file for the floppy disk drive emulation.
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New Image File
. In this case, Assistant will create a new image that will emulate the floppy disk drive. To create a new floppy disk drive and add it to your virtual machine, just click
Add Device
in the
Add Floppy Disk
window.
If you want the device to be connected to the virtual machine automatically at startup, select the
Connected
option. If you clear this option, the drive will be enabled in the configuration, but not connected to the virtual machine. You can connect it later when running the virtual machine.
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Your next window will be different depending on what option (
Existing Image File
or
Real Floppy Disk
) you selected on the previous step:
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If you selected
Existing Image File
, you will need to specify the location of the corresponding image file and click
Add Device
to add a new floppy disk drive to your virtual machine.
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If you selected
Real Floppy Disk
, specify the floppy disk drive on your physical computer and click
Add Device
to add a new floppy disk drive to your virtual machine.
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