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
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 udev_removed_ from_BIOS. txt
udevadm info --export-db > ~/Desktop/
The results are attached...