On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 23:54 -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 05:13:51PM -0400, James Collins wrote:
[...]
> You're barking up the wrong tree as they say. Like I said, you don't
> want to attach your floppy to the guest as a usb device, you want to
> attach it as a plain floppy. What you want would probably be under the
> storage tab of machine settings, but I don't use the GUI that much
> with virtualbox, so I could be wrong. So, as far as doing what you
> need to do from the command line goes, have a look at the VBoxManage
> storagectl command, that's where you need to start.
From the point of view of the VirtualBox manager window you want to make
sure that the virtual machine has a virtual floppy drive attached in the
"Storage" settings section (DOS VMs should always have one unless you
changed something), and select to use your USB floppy drive with the
virtual drive.  Then your Mac will take care of the USB stuff and the
DOS VM (and VirtualBox) will just see a floppy drive and never have to
worry about the rest.

I am assuming that will work as I don't have a floppy drive (or a Mac!)
here to test with.

Regards,

Michael
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