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I am using (just beginning to use) VM on a PC running Win7_64.

I have successfully installed XP and so far everything is fine.

Except that VM doesn't recognize the physically existing 3.5" floppy drive. Under Win7 I can use the drive just fine, but VM doesn't seem to 'see' it.

Any idea?

Many thanks in advance
khfpl

Use the "Storage" panel to add a floppy controller and floppy disk drive to the VM recipe (these items are not added by default). Thereafter use in a similar way to the virtual CD drive, i.e. associate with either a host physical drive on an uncompressed floppy image.

mpack wrote:Use the "Storage" panel to add a floppy controller and floppy disk drive to the VM recipe (these items are not added by default). Thereafter use in a similar way to the virtual CD drive, i.e. associate with either a host physical drive on an uncompressed floppy image.

Thank you for your reply! Have added the controller, worked fine.

Still have problems to associate with the host physical drive though. I want to have the drive available and it should work whenever I insert a disk. The system however either forces me to select a certain floppy&folder (virtual floppy) or doesn't access a floppy if I leave the drive "empty" while associating it. If I then put a floppy into the drive, VM doesn't recognize it (the floppy, it does "see" the drive though).
Any further idea or hint?



I

Are you sure you associated the guests virtual drive with the correct physical host drive? Beyond that there's limited advice I can offer: none of my current PCs have floppy drives any more. At a push you can make images of your floppies and mount in the image instead, in fact that's usually preferred.