Adding a Floppy Drive

You can connect the virtual machine's floppy drive to a physical drive on the host machine or an ISO image on your host machine or on the machine where you are running your browser.

To add a new virtual floppy drive to a virtual machine

1. Make sure the virtual machine is powered off.
2. From the VI Web Access inventory, select the virtual machine.
3. On the Summary tab, under Commands, click Add Hardware.
4. Click Floppy Drive and click Next.
5. Select one of the Media Type options:
   • Use a physical drive connects the virtual machine's drive to a physical drive on the host or client computer.
   • Use an existing floppy image connects the virtual machine's drive to a floppy image file on the host of client computer.
   • Create a blank floppy image connects the virtual machine's drive to a new, blank floppy image file on the host or client computer.
6. Click Next.
7. Select the type of floppy media.

   To have the Floppy Drive connected to the virtual machine when you power it on, select Connect at power on.

   Connect at power on is not available with client media.

8. Click Finish.