Subj : Re: Choice of hypervisors
To   : paulie420
From : acn
Date : Thu Jul 07 2022 13:08:00

Am 05.07.22 schrieb paulie420@21:2/150 in FSX_GEN:

Hallo paulie420,

ac>> I thought about using it (and also had a test installation on one
ac>> system) for my retro systems but had to find out that is isn't
ac>> possible to mount virtual floppy disks to VMs.
ac>>
ac>> While this is not a problem for most people nowerdays, it is one if
ac>> you eg. want to install Novell NetWare, where you have to boot from a
ac>> floppy disk for installation - and the license files are also on
ac>> floppies.

p> I could be off base here, but I mount .ISOs that I create and they are
p> mounted as disks, right?

..ISO files are mounted as virtual CD-ROM drives, that's correct and  
that does work.

But I'm referring to virtual floppy disks (1.44 MB), not CD-ROMs, ISOs  
etc.

Regards,
Anna

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