Hello Peter, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I'm new to VBox, though not to Linux, and when I install onto my AMD64 box > the host apparently can't find an optical drive. > > On the Details tab, before I start installing a guest OS, the CD/DVD > drop-down box contains only /dev/fd0. This happens regardless of whether I > use the downloaded VirtualBox-3.0.6-52128-Linux_amd64.run or the Gentoo > app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-3.0.6 ebuild. > > I did get WinXP to install, but first I had to make an ISO of its > installation disk and mount that instead of the CD. > > What am I doing wrong? (Kernel config attached.) I am looking at this. Stay tuned and I will hopefully be able to get back to you in a few days time.
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