Hello Guy, I presume that you did put in the VM name, which you left out in the text of the e-mail. What does 'VBoxManage list hostdvds' say? And do you have read and write permission on that device?
Regards, Michael Guy schlosser wrote: > Hi all, I have a question that is really simple in nature. I know I'm > gonna kick myself square in the butt when I find out the answer, because > I know I'm probably missing something really obvious. I'm trying to get > my physical DVD-RW drive to be detected in my win-xp guest. After all > the updates this weekend, my Ubuntu 7.04 system has been upgraded to > the .21 kernel, and Virtualbox 1.5. I changed the DVD drive, so that I > could update my guest additions, but now I want to change the -dvd > option so that it points to my dvd-rw. The command I entered was > VBoxManage modifyvm -dvd host:/dev/scd0. I've also tried /dev/cdrom0, > and even without the /dev. If someone can please let me know what I'm > doing wrong, let me know ASAP. I do have a DVD in the drive, and I can > see it through the file browser in Gnome. Thanks in advance for the > help, and excellent job for 1.5. > > Thanks, > > > Guy > > > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
