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12. On the Floppy Drive page, shown in Figure 23-13, you can choose how to ac-
cess the floppy drive. If you need to run a legacy program that needs to make
use of a diskette drive installed on the host system or use a diskette image file
(.FLP), you can create a virtual floppy drive (the process is similar to creating
a CD/DVD drive). Since diskette drives are increasingly rare and are unlikely
to be needed for this virtual machine, you can click Don't Add a Floppy Drive
and then Next to continue.
13. On the USB Controller page, shown in Figure 23-14, you can choose whether
or not to add a USB controller. If you would like the virtual machine to be able
to read and write to USB devices connected to the host computer, select Add a
USB Controller. There are no further options to configure if you choose to add a
USB controller. Click Next to move to the final page of the virtual disk creation
process.
14. You will see the confirmatory page shown in Figure 23-15. If any choices need to
be changed, you can click Back and revise your answers. Otherwise, click Finish
to create the virtual machine. Provided that you did not choose to allocate all
disk space immediately, the virtual machine should be created within a minute
or so, and you will return to the VMware Server management console.
Figure 23-13.
Setting floppy drive access
Summary :
If you need to run a legacy program that needs to make use of a diskette drive installed on the host system or use a diskette image file (.FLP), you can create a virtual floppy drive (the process is similar to creating a CD/DVD drive).
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