On Oct 9, at 18:52 | Oct9, Bryan Horstmann wrote:
> On 09/10/2011 10:32, Tony Firshman wrote:
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>>> Thanks Dave. But I don't understand "current focus". Can you explain a
>>> bit please as I struggle with the techhie bits. VMware was set up for me
>>> and I hardly understand it except that it gives me Kubuntu and W2000 (or
>>> did until the latter failed)
>> It simply means the vmware is the current selected window.
>>
>> Tony
> Thanks for the help. There is a devices button at the top of VMware whereby
> the floppy can be connected to VMware or connected to the host. Is that
> effectively what is meant? When connected to the guest, it doesn't appear on
> the "computer" Vista devices screen.
>
On the Macbook VMware this is at the bottom right, but I suspect they are the
same buttons. I do not have a floppy option as there is no physical device,
but yes, there are similar connect/disconnect buttons for all other physical
devices.
One thing I did find with qemulator is that the USB floppy is B: (under
Vmware), as A: is reserved by OS X despite there being no physical device!
A great bug that was in Vmware 2 when freshly installed (but not in Vmware 4)
was that it defaulted to using the Macbook video camera (which is a usb
device). That one beat both the 'genius' and Vmware support. I fortunately
realised *before* following the Vmware advice to re-install Windows XP (8-)#
I have other useful experience - private email please if interested.
Tony
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