In this document, I will try to explain how to make advanced use of the Virtual Floppy in a Virtual Machine, either with VMWare Workstation, Server, ESX or ESXi.

In the beginning, We will no longer need the use of this support, But we all know, that on certain occasions, The easiest thing would be to take a floppy drive with us 3 1/2 USB on top. With this procedure, We learn how to create an image in .flp with drivers, or a boot floppy disk for later use on the VM.

To do this, we are going to use a very useful application, already commented on in some other procedure. The tool in question is WinImage 8.1 and therefore the first thing we have to do is install it.

This program allows us to create .flp or .vfd images, VMWARE-compatible extensions, of the files we need

From the menu “File”, “New”, We will select the type of file we want to create, telling us that we would like to create a floppy, selected 1.44Mb.

Drag the files we want to include…

…Once we have all the necessary files, We select “Save as” and we choose the Virtual floppy Image format. This would be ready by now.

We would only have to select the image in the properties of the flopy unit of the virtual machine that we want.