USB Drives in DOS via Emulation?

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cam815

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Is there a way to boot off an image of a DOS floppy and add an attached USB drive as a local drive in the guest operating system?

I have an application that runs under DOS so I grabbed a Windows 98 boot disk image (.ima) and mapped that to the Floppy drive. Now with the CD-ROM you have the option to pick a physical CD-ROM or an image file. I was hoping I could do the same with the Harddrive and add a "local" harddrive to the virtual machine that was actually a USB drive plugged in. I need to be able to boot off the floppy and read the USB drive as my C: drive...

Any ideas?

Thanks!
 
Parallels does not support physical partitions at this time.

You can format the drive with HFS+ (so you can have >2gb files that FAT32 does not support), and add a .hdd file on that drive as the main hard disk image for the VM.
 
Unfortunately the two partitions on the IDE harddrive connected via USB are crucial to the application running in DOS.

Looks like I'll have to use an actual PC to pull this off :(
 
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