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On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:21:43AM -0500, john s wolter wrote:
> Yep that's right those oooolddd diskettes A & B are needed in a virtual
> form.  I want to run an old MS-DOS program that is in drive A that expects
> the data to be on drive B:.  Originally A & B were floppy disks(8" ?, no
> 51/4").   No source code or command line parameters are available to fix
> this situation.

You actually can do what you're describing with virtualbox. You just
need to add a floppy controller to your guest, and add 2 drives to the
controller. If you need details, I can explain how you'd do this from
the command line using VBoxManage.

Greg


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