No floppy & only one (of two) CDs

NickC · Post by **NickC** » 13. Jan 2009, 15:54

Hi All,

I am initially trying to setup an environment to run virtualized Win2003.

Currently have running Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop (AMD64) with Virtualbox (virtualbox-2.1_2.1.0-41146_Ubuntu_intrepid_amd64.deb) hosting Win2003. However I have hit a few problems. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

1). Virtualbox only seems to allow one CD/DVD drive to be used at a time.
2). Floppy drive does not seem to be recognised.
3). SCSI controller (Adaptec 29320) is not detected, Ubuntu does not seem to support SCSI controllers.

Where do I go from here, should I try a different Linux distro, if so which one?

I have also just tried installing Proxmox but had even less success with that, couldn't work out how to see the screen of the guest OS.

Nick

Post by **Sasquatch** » 15. Jan 2009, 00:52

1. This is on purpose, why would you need to have more than one drive anyway. It takes up an IDE slot where you could put a hard drive. Before SATA support, this was a welcome slot for some.

2. Check your Host. It's possible that it doesn't have the floppy module loaded, or it's listed in the wrong device section (like /dev/sd* instead of /dev/fd0).

3. VMs can't access Host hardware like that. It only has access to your removable media and network adapters, and even the latter needs virtualisation on top of it.