OS Testing

[relyt]

(Mods, if this is in the wrong section, please feel free to move it.)

For a few months or so, I`ve been working on an operating system codenamed
"Blue Sky." I`ve double checked my bootloader, GUI, input/output, etc., and it all has compiled and linked together neatly into a binary file. Thing is, every site I`ve looked at tells me to use Rawrite/PartCopy to write the binary to the floppy. There lies the problem. I don`t have a computer that supports floppies, nor do I have a computer I feel safe to test it on. So I`m going to use a Virtual Machine for it.

So, does anyone have any suggestions for what I can do?

P.S. I will ignore anyone who tells me to buy a computer.

[helios]

So use a VM. What does this have to do with C++ programming, again?

[relyt]

Sorry, I thought I made it clear in the first post. My question is, how do I make a file that the VM can understand. Ex: iso, img. As for C++ programming, I have some C++ code in the OS, but, like I said, mods can move if they need to.

[Athar]

Image files don't have any format - they're raw representations of the data on a medium.
So if you already had an image file you were going to write on the floppy, you don't need to do anything.

[relyt]

If you`re saying use the flat binary, I`ll try that when I get access to my computer.

EDIT: After some extensive testing, only the bootloader works. If I use the kernel and GUI, the VM doesn`t accept it.