A virtual machine floppy drive can be connected to a real floppy drive as well as to floppy disk image. To get information on floppy disk images used by Parallels Workstation read Floppy Disk Images topic.
Device status:
Note: If you start the virtual machine with the floppy drive disabled, you cannot change this option when virtual machine is running.
If the floppy drive is enabled, it can be connected/disconnected while VM is running. Media that the floppy drive accesses can also be changed.
Emulation:
A:
). Note: In Linux primary OS to be able to connect virtual machine floppy drive to a real floppy drive, you should have system privileges to access real device. Otherwise real floppy will not appear in the list of available devices despite it is installed on your computer.
.fdd
file), select Use image file radio button. A new field, Image File, appears. Specify the path to a disk image file or click Browse button and locate the file. .fdd
and the corresponding file is created in the directory specified in the Image File field.