Virtual floppy

[acole1]

I am in need of some software that will virtualize a floppy drive.

I tried VM Back (http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html), but it doesn't work with the software I need it for.

The software I am using does detect a USB floppy drive. I suspect this is because the Device Manager picks it up as a floppy disk drive.

The VM Back floppy drive isn't seen by the device manager. It isn't much different than taking any hard disk and assigning drive letter A to it.

Is there anything that would be a solution to my problem?

 

[yinan]

Run it in a virtual machine and create a floppy drive that it will use?

 

[acole1]

The software has to also talk to a serial port. How well would the VM work with that?

 

[yinan]

VMware workstation and ESX server both allow for the redirection of a serial port into a VM.