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. ![]() The floppy disk may be obsolete in the real world, but sometimes you still need to add one to a virtual machine.
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