Prev   Next

emulating a floppy 

Newsgroups: vmware.for-linux.installation
Date: 2000/03/12
> It would be great if vmware allowed EMULATING a floppy by
> pointing it at a floppy image file.

It already does exactly this. Granted, it's not immediately obvious how to do it (I too had to post on this list to find out how).

  1. Start your virtual machine
  2. Click the "devices" menu item
  3. Click the "floppy0" entry
  4. Click the "Disconnect and Edit" entry
  5. Change the "type" dropdown from "device" to "file"
  6. Enter the file's name in the edit control
  7. Click OK or Save
  8. Click the "devices" menu again
  9. Click "connect"

and there you go. I regularly boot a VM from a floppy image this way.

Eric Hanchrow


SourceForge.net LogoXpt.SourceForge.netCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
Single file version available here.
Last updated on 2008-06-06.
To discuss, comment here.
Prev   Next
 Home