-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 You've already posted this here twice. Instead of continuing to post feature requests here, which it seems aren't going to get a comment from Sun, why don't you open a feature enhancement ticket for this, if one doesn't exist already.
Greg On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 01:40:58PM -0400, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > (Unless things have changed since the version associated with the manual I > read) VirtualBox does not support changing the reported manufacturer and model > names of the virtual CD/DVD drive. > > That apparently means that I can't use the version of Nero that came bundled > with my DVD drive. That version is licensed only for that DVD drive, and > checks the manufacturer and model name (or maybe the vendor and product IDs) > reported by the drive. When Nero is running in a VM with the virtual DVD > drive mapped to the real drive, since VirtualBox doesn't report the actual > values from the real drive, Nero doesn't see the values it's checking for, > and refuses to recognize the drive for writing. > > (Yes, I understand that VirtualBox avoids _changing_ the virtual device's > names > _every_ _time_ an ISO CD/DVD image or a real drive is attached to avoid > Windows' > reaction to hardware changeds. > > Since others might have similar problems with bundled software, I'd like to > request that VirtualBox: > 1) allow setting the apparent manufacturer name, model name, vendor ID, and > product ID (or whatever the "right" set of properties is), and > 2) be able to report those values for an attached (real) device (so the user > can decide which values to set for part 1). > > > Thanks, > Daniel > -- > (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML "courtesy" of Microsoft Exchange.) [F] > > > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknwqVsACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyByKgCgoLwMSv3i2NBWKBHOl9MsbqFd EqUAoNzD5qPkRmF0mtRprCJHvJwpKmEX =yP4k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
