On Wednesday 09 September 2009 14:35:41 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 08 September 2009 18:56:50 walt wrote: > > Are you seeing something very different at your end? > > Yes. I've created just one VM (this is on my KDE-4 test system). On the > Details tab I get a list of configuration variables with their values. > Under CD/DVD ROM I have "Mount CD/DVD drive" selected, and the "Host CD/DVD > drive" drop-down box contains just the one entry: /dev/fd0. > > That's why I said I can't install a guest OS - the VM can't read the > installation CD. Have I to make an ISO from the CD and mount that? Seems > like a bit of a roundabout route if so.
In addition to the screenshot, using Linux it's very easy to create an ISO-file from an existing CD/DVD. I always do it with: # cp /dev/cdrom <path-to>/bladiebla.iso (change paths / names as appropriate) No need to install additional software to do this and I have succesfully used this to create ISO images from MS Windows install media as well for use with both VirtualBox and VMWare. -- Joost
