OK - so Based on Rafael Keller Tesser's excellent comments (along with some hints from VMWare folks ) - I went into the VM machine's BIOS and [Disabled] the reference to the FLOPPY. Then re-ran
dmesg > ~/Desktop/dmesg_removed_from_BIOS.txt udevadm info --export-db > ~/Desktop/udev_removed_from_BIOS.txt The results are attached... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1054414 Title: VMWare exports a floppy controller, resulting in a phantom floppy drive. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks2/+bug/1054414/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs