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Changing the Connection for a Floppy Drive from a Virtual Machine

You can change the connection for a virtual floppy drive through the remote console or use the VMware Management Interface. For example, you can associate a different physical drive with the virtual drive, or choose to use a floppy image instead of a physical drive connection.

To change the connection for a virtual floppy drive:

1. Select File > Open and open the virtual machine configuration file (.cfg) you want to modify.
2. Select Settings > Configuration Editor from the remote console.
3. From the list of devices, select the floppy drive.
4. On the far right, make a different selection under Type:
   • Device. Select this option if you want the guest operating system in the virtual machine to access the physical floppy drive accessible to the server.
   • File. Select this option if you want the virtual floppy drive to connect to an image file of a floppy drive. Then click Choose to locate the image file to which this virtual floppy drive should be connected.
5. Click OK.

Related topics:

• Enabling access to a floppy drive from a virtual machine
• Automatically connecting to a floppy drive at power on

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