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 PostPost subject: Virtual Box 5.25" floppy?        Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 5:07 pm 
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Does anyone know if Vbox does support virtualising a 5.25" floppy drive? I don’t see such an option…

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 PostPost subject: Re: Virtual Box 5.25" floppy?        Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 6:08 pm 
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it does support 360KB floppies, which are 5.25-inch floppies.

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 PostPost subject: Re: Virtual Box 5.25" floppy?        Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 6:13 pm 
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If you mean, does it support using a physical 5.25'' floppy drive and virtualizing its connection to a virtual machine, then I'm not sure. If it's a drive connected with a standard IDE-like floppy connector, then it should do, seeing as I have a 3.5'' USB floppy drive which works in VirtualBox VMs, and reportedly Windows all the way up to 7 supports 5.25'' floppy drives.

If you mean virtual floppy disks of 5.25'' capacities (such as 320KB and 360KB) then yes, VirtualBox supports those. You can select them just like any other 1.44MB or 720KB floppy image file.

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 PostPost subject: Re: Virtual Box 5.25" floppy?        Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 7:12 pm 
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No, I mean 1,2MB 5,25" virtual floppy drive.

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 PostPost subject: Re: Virtual Box 5.25" floppy?        Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 7:13 pm 
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kinokijuf wrote:
No, I mean 1,2MB 5,25" virtual floppy drive.

Again, you're not being very clear.
Do you want VirtualBox to:
  • Emulate a 5.25" floppy drive?
  • Use a physical 5.25" floppy drive?

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