Creating a .flp file for use with Virtual Floppy.

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.

Installing and Using VMware Player

This procedure explains a VMware product, called VMware Player. It is software that runs on top of an operating system, it can be a Linux, a Windows XP or a 2003, VMware Player would be installed on it and virtual machines would run on it with the OS. that interests us, both for testing, Research How to End Use. The Bad, that the S.O. base is already consuming resources that could be leveraged by VMs, or we have to pay Microsoft directly for a Windows license. The VMware Player is lightweight software for using virtual machines, With it we will not be able to create machines but we will be able to execute them and modify certain parameters of them.