VMware Fusion Pro 13

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Create a Floppy Disk Image

To read data from a floppy disk to a virtual machine, you must create a disk image that the virtual machine can recognize.
Some operating systems require you to use floppy disks to install them. Because the Mac does not include a physical floppy drive, and because
Fusion
 supports floppy images only, you must use a USB floppy drive to create floppy images.
The Apple Disk Utility can create floppy disk images for this purpose.
  1. Attach a USB floppy drive to your Mac.
  2. Start the Mac Disk Utility by going to
    Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility
     on your Mac.
  3. Insert the floppy disk for which you need an image.
  4. In the
    Disk Utility
     window, select the floppy disk and click
    New Image
    .
  5. In the
    Image Format
     pop-up menu, select
    read/write
    .
  6. In the
    Encryption
     pop-up menu, select
    None
    .
  7. Save the floppy disk image to the chosen location.
  8. In the Finder, right-click on the created floppy image and select
    Get Info
    .
  9. In
    Name & Extension
    , change the file extension from
    .dmg
     to
    .flp
     and close the
    Get Info
     window.
    Confirm the change when prompted.
  10. Repeat the process for each floppy disk to create.
To attach the images to a virtual machine, see Connect and Set Up a Floppy Device.

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