Add a Floppy Drive to a Virtual Machine in the vSphere Web Client

Use a physical floppy drive or a floppy image to add a floppy drive to a virtual machine.

You cannot use vMotion to migrate virtual machines that have floppy drives that are backed by the physical floppy drive on the host. You must disconnect these devices before you migrate the virtual machine.

Procedure

Select a virtual machine.

■	In the virtual machines and templates inventory tree, select a group of virtual machines and select a virtual machine from the list on the right.
■	Search for a virtual machine and select it from the search results list.

In the VM Hardware panel, click Edit Settings.

Click Virtual Hardware.

From the Add a device drop-down menu, select Floppy Drive and click Add device.

The new floppy drive appears in the virtual devices list above.

Click the triangle next to the floppy device to expand the drive options.

Select the device type to use for this virtual device.

Option

Description

Client Device

Select this option to connect the floppy device to a physical floppy device on the system from which you access the vSphere Web Client.

Host Device

a	Select this option to connect the floppy device to a physical floppy device on the host.
b	Select the specific device from the drop-down list.

Existing File

a	Select this option to connect the virtual device to an existing floppy image on a datastore accessible to the host.
b	Click Browse and select the floppy image.

(Optional) Select or deselect the Connected check box to connect or disconnect the device.

Select Connect At Power On to connect the device when the virtual machine powers on.

Click OK.