As it turns out, hdiutil can create them, it’s just not very well documented.

What I needed was a scriptable method to create virtual floppy images and inject files without using a helper VM to do it. That method was much too interactive as I tested and iterated on my autounattend.xml file. After all, thats what VMware says to do in kb1002195. flp extension, attach it to a VM, and then format it from inside the VM. flp images is to make an empty file with a. The best of the bad ideas on the whiteboard was to use a virtual floppy disk. Recently, I needed to inject an autounattend.xml file into a windows VM so I could bring up a Windows instance from scratch with Ansible. ($$$-not worth it unless the FB content is gold) get Parallels (a virtual environment manager), install a copy of an old Microsoft Windows-don’t know much about Windows so I have no clue if their latest OSes still have support for FDD) and go from there.The floppy disk may be obsolete in the real world, but sometimes you still need to add one to a virtual machine. The resulting file will be treated as a disk image of some sort. At this point one could use the OS utility 𝚍𝚍. If you get to this point, you might be in luck. (free) I would try to use Mac’s Dɪsᴋ Uᴛɪʟɪᴛʏ to see if it “recognizes” the FD and display its assigned device node (e.g., disk5). To my knowledge, a Mac might not come with the required drivers to read the content of the floppy in a smart way (i.e., able to recognize not only the type of content but the “boundaries” of files on the disk).

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