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On Sep 8, 2011, at 6:30 AM, Michael Thayer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 added a floppy controller in settings of my vm freedos. How do I connect to it? When I click on the little storage icon when freedos is running I have no options? > > I am assuming that will work as I don't have a floppy drive (or a Mac!) > here to test with. > > Regards, > > Michael > -- > ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Michael Thayer > Werkstrasse 24 VirtualBox engineering > 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:[email protected] > > Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München > Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 > > Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. > Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande > Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 > Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz, Marcel van de Molen, Alexander van der Ven > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Doing More with Less: The Next Generation Virtual Desktop > What are the key obstacles that have prevented many mid-market businesses > from deploying virtual desktops? How do next-generation virtual desktops > provide companies an easier-to-deploy, easier-to-manage and more affordable > virtual desktop model.http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426474/ > _______________________________________________ > VBox-users-community mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Doing More with Less: The Next Generation Virtual Desktop What are the key obstacles that have prevented many mid-market businesses from deploying virtual desktops? How do next-generation virtual desktops provide companies an easier-to-deploy, easier-to-manage and more affordable virtual desktop model.http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426474/ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
