Networking: A Beginner’s Guide Fifth Edition- P81:I have run into many people over the years who have gained good even impressive working knowledge of PCs, operating systems, applications, and common problems and solutions. Many of these people are wizards with desktop computers. | 382 Networking A Beginner s Guide Figure 23-13. Setting floppy drive access 12. On the Floppy Drive page shown in Figure 23-13 you can choose how to access the floppy drive. If you need to run a legacy program that needs to make use of a diskette drive installed on the host system or use a diskette image file .FLP you can create a virtual floppy drive the process is similar to creating a CD DVD drive . Since diskette drives are increasingly rare and are unlikely to be needed for this virtual machine you can click Don t Add a Floppy Drive and then Next to continue. 13. On the USB Controller page shown in Figure 23-14 you can choose whether or not to add a USB controller. If you would like the virtual machine to be able to read and write to USB devices connected to the host computer select Add a USB Controller. There are no further options to configure if you choose to add a USB controller. Click Next to move to the final page of the virtual disk creation process. 14. You will see the confirmatory page shown in Figure 23-15. If any choices need to be changed you can click Back and revise your answers. Otherwise click Finish to create the virtual machine. Provided that you did not choose to allocate all disk space immediately the virtual machine should be created within a minute or so and you will return to the VMware Server management console. Chapter 23 Introduction to Virtualization 383 Figure 23-14. Choosing whether or not to add a USB controller Figure 23-15. Completing the virtual machine creation 384 Networking A Beginner s Guide Running Ubuntu Linux in the Virtual Machine Now that you ve created the Ubuntu virtual machine from the main VMware management console click the virtual machine in the Inventory pane which will then display the details of the virtual machine as shown in Figure 23-16. If you made any mistakes you can change the virtual machine parameters in the Hardware pane by clicking the various drop-down boxes. Otherwise all you need to do is power
