ago Odd, because Im always set to High Pref in power plans, and it didnt help. To disable or enable access to a floppy drive while a virtual machine is running, select the virtual machine, select VM > Removable Devices > Floppy, and select Disconnect or Connect. There is a better workaround for this though: change Windows 'Power Mode' to 'Best performance' this issue goes away completely - its able to schedule VMware to the proper cores then, regardless of how many cores you assign to the VM. Select Read only to prevent changes from being made to the file. Select a specific floppy drive or select Auto detect to allow Workstation Pro to detect a drive to use.Ĭreate or browse to a floppy image (. (Shared virtual machine only) The physical drive or floppy image file can be used only in this session.

(Shared virtual machine only) The physical drive or floppy image file can be used across multiple sessions. (Remote virtual machine only) The physical drive or floppy image file is located on the local host.

(Remote virtual machine only) The physical drive or floppy image file is located on the remote host. Select the location of the physical drive or floppy image file. To configure floppy drive settings for a selected virtual machine, select VM > Settings, click the Hardware tab, and select the floppy drive.Ĭonnect the drive or floppy image file while the virtual machine is running.Ĭonnect the floppy drive when you power on the virtual machine. You can configure when a floppy drive is connected to a virtual machine, whether to use a specific drive or allow Workstation Pro to detect a drive, and whether to use an disk drive image file instead of a physical drive.

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