To disable the floppy drive in a Fusion virtual machine:
Fusion 4.x and above
- Navigate to Virtual Machine > Settings.
- Click Floppy Drive.
- Change the switch beside Enable Floppy Drive from ON to OFF.
Fusion 3.x and 2.x
- Go to Virtual Machine > Settings.
- Click Other Devices.
- Select the Floppy device from the column on the left.
- Deselect Connected.
Fusion 1.x
You must disable the floppy drive in the BIOS of the guest operating system.
To disable the floppy drive for a virtual machine:
- Quit VMware Fusion.
- In Mac Finder, browse to the Windows XP virtual machine bundle. The default virtual machine bundle location is
~/Documents/Virtual Machines
. - Right-click the Windows XP Professional virtual machine bundle and choose Show Package Contents.
- O pen the
Windows Professional.vmx
file in a text editor. - Add the following entry in
.vmx
file:
bios.forceSetupOnce = "TRUE"
- Save the file.
- Launch the Windows XP virtual machine. The virtual machine boots in to BIOS setup mode.
- Change the Legacy Diskette A: and Legacy Diskette B: status to Disabled by pressing + or -.
- Choose the Exit option from the top menu bar of the BIOS window.
- Click Exit Saving Changes. Click Yes. T he virtual machine restarts and the floppy drive is disabled.