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How to Configure the Floppy Drive for a Virtual Machine
Updated: October 21, 2008
Applies To: Virtual Machine Manager 2008, Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1
Use the following procedure to configure the virtual floppy drive to:
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Read a physical floppy drive on the host.
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Read a virtual floppy disk (.vfd or .flp) file stored in the library.
You can use this procedure when creating a hardware profile, modifying a hardware profile, or configuring hardware profile settings from the New Template Wizard or the New Virtual Machine Wizard. You can configure a floppy drive but you cannot remove it or add additional floppy drives.
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| To apply a sysprep answer file, VMM will create and remove a virtual floppy drive during the virtual machine creation process. |
To configure virtual floppy drive settings for a virtual machine
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In the left pane, under Hardware Profile, click Floppy Drive.
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Modify the virtual floppy drive settings by selecting one of the following options:
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No media (default). Select this option to specify that the virtual floppy drive cannot read a physical floppy disk or a virtual floppy disk. If you are modifying an existing hardware profile, you can select No Media to disconnect a virtual floppy drive from the host drive or from a virtual floppy disk file.
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Physical floppy drive. Select this option to enable the virtual floppy drive to read a physical floppy disk in the specified physical floppy drive on the host.
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Existing virtual floppy disk file. Select this option to enable the virtual floppy drive on a virtual machine to access a specific virtual floppy disk (.vfd or .flp) file that is stored in a library share. Click Browse to open the Select virtual floppy disk dialog box, and then select the virtual floppy disk that you want to use.
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No media (default). Select this option to specify that the virtual floppy drive cannot read a physical floppy disk or a virtual floppy disk. If you are modifying an existing hardware profile, you can select No Media to disconnect a virtual floppy drive from the host drive or from a virtual floppy disk file.
