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  • Re: Cannot access DVD drive

    From Shinji Ikari@21:1/5 to pinnerite on Fri Sep 29 17:08:07 2023
    Hello.

    pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> schrieb

    My WIN-10 is a virtual machine running under virtualBox on Linux Mint.
    I want to reinstall an application from a CD but Windows doesn't find the drive.

    Did you mount one of the drives to the VM?
    the VM is "virtuzal" and does not see the real hardware unless you
    allow it access (look in the menuebar).

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  • From pinnerite@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 29 16:02:38 2023
    My WIN-10 is a virtual machine running under virtualBox on Linux Mint.

    I want to reinstall an application from a CD but Windows doesn't find the drive.

    I have two DVD drives on my machine.

    I have no idea which drive Windows is expected to find but it doesn't respond to either of them.



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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to pinnerite on Fri Sep 29 12:30:43 2023
    On 9/29/2023 11:02 AM, pinnerite wrote:
    My WIN-10 is a virtual machine running under virtualBox on Linux Mint.

    I want to reinstall an application from a CD but Windows doesn't find the drive.

    I have two DVD drives on my machine.

    I have no idea which drive Windows is expected to find but it doesn't respond to either of them.


    Windows can automatically recognize media is present in a drive,
    just via the autorun setup on it. Otherwise, you have to open
    File Explorer, and navigate to the Setup.exe on the disc to get
    the job done.

    Here, I've added a second optical, but I haven't mapped it to E: yet.
    On your Linux Host, the identity of the /dev for the optical
    will be somewhat different than the Windows namespace E: .
    Maybe your optical drives are /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1 ?
    Then, when configuring the optical drives, you will have to
    tell each one, which /dev physical drive to use for the purpose.

    [Picture]

    https://i.postimg.cc/SNyjmrHt/vbox-add-optical-drive.gif

    Paul

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  • From Big Al@21:1/5 to this is what pinnerite on Fri Sep 29 13:03:07 2023
    On 9/29/23 11:02, this is what pinnerite wrote:
    My WIN-10 is a virtual machine running under virtualBox on Linux Mint.

    I want to reinstall an application from a CD but Windows doesn't find the drive.

    I have two DVD drives on my machine.

    I have no idea which drive Windows is expected to find but it doesn't respond to either of them.



    Another idea would be to make an iso of the DVD, then before booting the VM, go into settings and put the ISO in the
    vm's dvd drive.
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  • From pinnerite@21:1/5 to pinnerite on Sat Sep 30 10:57:12 2023
    On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 16:02:38 +0100
    pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> wrote:

    My WIN-10 is a virtual machine running under virtualBox on Linux Mint.

    I want to reinstall an application from a CD but Windows doesn't find the drive.

    I have two DVD drives on my machine.

    I have no idea which drive Windows is expected to find but it doesn't respond to either of them.


    I found out how to do it. A bit confusing but ...

    VirtualBox -> Settings -> Storage -> Host Drive -> Attributes -> Optical Drive -> Click-blue-button on the right -> select Host Drive mnnnnn

    QED


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