On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Gregory Nowak <[email protected]> wrote:
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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.
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> You actually can do what you're describing with virtualbox.

VM->Settings->Storage->Add controller->Add floppy controller->Add Floppy

VBox can emulate 2x 1.44 MB floppies per VM, either read-only or read-write.
You will need to create or download a floppy image, or use physical
floppy, if you have one.

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