On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Gregory Nowak <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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.
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. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
