![]() ![]() Do not use saved state, you must shutdown the guest. Put a floppy in and then boot up the guest and see if it detects it. I found that if a floppy was not in the drive when the guest was booted it sometimes caused this behavior. Is there some setting that I am missing? Please help me to get the floppy disk to work under VirtualBox Windows XP. It does not matter whether the green light is on or not, the floppy drive works fine with the host operating system (Ubuntu), but the floppy drive never works with VirtualBox Windows XP. If I unmount the floppy, the green light goes out. ![]() Whenever the floppy drive is mounted the green l.e.d. When virtual Windows XP is running, if I look under Devices>Mount Floppy, the host floppy drive is mounted. In the main VirtualBox program, under Settings>Floppy, "Mount Floppy Drive" is checked off for the host floppy drive. If I insert a disk into the floppy drive and click on the floppy drive icon I get this message: "Please Insert a disk into drive A:". In the virtual Windows XP installation, if I open Windows Explorer it shows the floppy drive as it should, as "31/2 floppy (A:)". (Guest Additions is also installed.) The floppy drive works fine under Ubuntu. I installed Windows XP SP3 as the guest OS. I am running VirtualBox 3.0.2 on Ubuntu 9.04, which is the host operating system. Sometimes I need to use the floppy disk drive. ![]()
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