[msuper69]

I downloaded the trial version of Parallels to see what all the hub-bub was about. But for the life of me I cannot get it to recognize (that is, boot from) a physical floppy drive. I've got a iomega high-speed USB drive that works fine in VPC on my PowerMac G5 (both in Windows and native in OS X) and also on my MacBook in OS X.

The Parallels virtual machine configuration recognizes the floppy drive as /dev/disk3 (which is correct according to System Profiler). I had to go to Terminal and use "sudo chmod a+r /dev/disk3" which finally made the drive appear in the configuration drop down. Got that little hint from their support FAQ which was actually a question from someone in the Linux camp. I figured it might work on OS X also.

Anybody got an idea of what is wrong?

[icruise]

Can't you just make a disk image of the floppy and boot from that? I believe I was able to do that when I was trying to install some earlier versions of Windows, but I don't really recall the details of how I did it.

[msuper69]

Originally Posted by Icruise

Can't you just make a disk image of the floppy and boot from that? I believe I was able to do that when I was trying to install some earlier versions of Windows, but I don't really recall the details of how I did it.

Parallels uses it's own format for virtual disk images and the tool required is not currently included/available for OS X according to the documentation that comes with the trial. So there is no way that I can see to use a virtual floppy disk.

[icruise]

I was able to use a Virtual PC floppy disk image in Parallels, so that's how I did what I was talking about above. I don't know if that helps you at all.

[alex_kac]

I believe Parallels is still quite weak with USB. They are working on that.