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Adding Drives to a Virtual Machine
VMware Workstation virtual machines can use up to four IDE devices and up to seven SCSI devices. Any of these devices can be a virtual hard disk or DVD or CD-ROM drive. A virtual machine can read data from a DVD disc. VMware Workstation does not support playing DVD movies in a virtual machine.
Many other SCSI devices can be connected to a virtual machine using the host operating system's generic SCSI driver. For details on connecting these devices, see Connecting to a Generic SCSI Device.
This section discusses the following topics:
•   Adding a New Virtual Disk to a Virtual Machine
•   Removing a Virtual Disk from a Virtual Machine
•   Adding Physical Disks to a Virtual Machine
•   Adding DVD or CD Drives to a Virtual Machine
•   Adding Floppy Drives to a Virtual Machine
•   Connecting a CD-ROM or Floppy Drive to an Image File

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