User guide

Managing Virtual Machines 114
 To use a floppy disk image (the .fdd file), select Use image file radio button. A new field,
Image File, appears. Specify the path to a disk image file or click Browse button and locate
the file.
 Parallels Workstation allows to create blank floppy image. Type the file name in the Image
File field and click Recreate button. The size of a floppy disk image equals 1.44 MB. The
default extension for a floppy disk is .fdd and the corresponding file is created in the
directory specified in the Image File field.
Hard Disk Options
The current version of Parallels Workstation allows virtual machines to only use hard disk
images in .hdd format. Read
Hard Disk Images (page 100) topic to get acquainted with disk
format and other its options.
Up to four IDE devices (hard disks and CD/DVD-ROM drives) can be connected to a virtual
machine currently. This means, that there can be no more than four hard drives plus CD/DVD-
ROM drives, i.e., it doesn't matter how many of IDE devices will be hard drives and how many
will be CD/DVD-ROMs.