How to connect a physical floppy drive to VirtualBox?

Question

linux

Hello everybody! There is a floppy drive that connects via usb. On Windows 10, you can connect this drive to a virtual machine, that is, enable direct access
. Also, I have another laptop that has the Manjaro XFCE operating system installed on it. And in VirtualBox, you can't attach a physical drive to a virtual machine.

Why is that? And yet, my drive is defined as a device / dev / sdX, although / dev / fdX is needed.

Answer 1

So, before opening the VirtualBox dialog, try to unmount the disk so that it is not mounted to the /mnt/floppy directory (it is better to do this not in the file manager, but with the sudo umount /dev/sdc command in the terminal)
Then, if the disk is still not will appear in the list of disks, for simplicity, run VirtualBox as root (in the VirtualBox sudo console) and check there
. If this does not work, manually add a raw disk to the list of floppy disks, specifying your block device /dev/sdc
If it does not work, create on based on the block device vmdk disk file, using the command:
sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename floppy_name.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/
sdc
ps make sure that the system does not automatically mount this disk while the virtual machine is running, otherwise the contents of the file system on it will be damaged

Answer 2

snotirovat as a raw-disk
https://docs.oracle.com/en/virtualization/virtualb...
probably full-fledged in the guest as a flop will not appear, just as a virtual device with a size of 1.44mb.
too old technology - no one writes under floppies