Existing users, 
VMware Fusion
Run windows & other x86 systems side-by-side with os x.
Version: 3.0
works fine for Windows Xp
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: John Hillestad Monday, August 06 2007 @ 09:20 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
The main problem I have with fusion is a lack of a true floppy drive a:
I cannot figure out how to load older os's that must use drive a: to boot from and load. (w95 w98 dos)
They use image files but provide no image maker..... but even with an image... so what ? Once dos is loaded I still need to stick a floppy in to load stuff but there really is no provision for this.
I thought my usb floppy drive would act as drive a: in the virtual machine but it does not.
So for XP its no trouble but for older os's it's just impossible to set up.
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works fine for Windows Xp - ziggy90127
Thanx for the tip. I have a usb floppy drive, and I was able to create an image in Terminal under Mac OS 10.4.9 using the following commands: "diskutil unmount /dev/disk1" "dd if=/dev/disk1 of=myfloppy.img".Sunday, January 13 2008 @ 11:11 PM PST
works fine for Windows Xp - erickorhonen
Just go to bootdisk.com and you can get floppy and cd images there for most windows versions.Tuesday, August 07 2007 @ 02:51 AM PDT
works fine for Windows Xp - sparcdr
Since all Macs for many years have not came with floppy drives, I'm assuming you're using a USB floppy drive. You just need to run DIsk Utility from Finder -> Tools -> Utilities and click the floppy drive and file -> New Disk Image from Folder should work if you have command.com and all of the .sys files, etc. Otherwise a direct copy can be done by using Terminal from Utilities and the command dd if=/dev/fd0 of=Image.img then load the .img as a floppy. Parallels Desktop can read the fdd images at least, haven't tried VMware as I don't have a USB floppy, nor do I need floppy. Search for "QEmu OS X floppy image fdd" for more instructions.Reply to This
Tuesday, August 07 2007 @ 02:38 AM PDT