User Guide

Using a Virtual Machine 41
• • • •
Sharing other removable volumes
The virtual machine and host PC can share a removable volume such
as a Zip disk (or media in other types of drives). To share a volume,
drag it to the Folder icon on the VPC Toolbar.
You can share the same volume with multiple virtual machines run-
ning at the same time.
Capturing a floppy image or floppy disk
Virtual PC supports capture of both floppy disk images and real
floppy disks by a virtual machine.
Floppy disk images
You can capture a floppy disk image using the shortcut menu for the
Floppy icon on the VPC Toolbar. (You can also drag a valid floppy
image directly to the icon to capture it.)
Be sure the disk image you use is uncompressed. Compressed images
cannot be captured.
For more information on using Virtual Disk Wizard to create a floppy
disk image, see page 69. You can also use floppy images created with
other programs. (Valid floppy images are exactly 720 K or 1.44 MB in
size.)
Real floppy disks
You can automatically capture a real floppy on a virtual machine by
enabling the setting Automatically detect floppy in Floppy settings.
(See page 57.)
You can capture a floppy disk inserted in a floppy drive of the host PC
at any time using the shortcut menu for the Floppy icon on the VPC
Toolbar.
Releasing a disk or disk image
You can release a floppy disk or floppy disk image from a virtual
machine using the Floppy shortcut menu on the VPC Toolbar.
NOTE Capturing a floppy disk or image to a virtual machine fails if
the host PC is running Windows 2000 and if the host PC has opened the
floppy drive inside Windows Explorer.