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CHAPTER 9 Using Virtual Disks
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Adding a DVD or CD Drive
1. Open the virtual machine settings editor (VM > Settings) and click Add to start
the Add Hardware Wizard.
2. Click DVD/CD-ROM Drive, then click Next.
3. Select Use physical drive if you want to connect the virtual machine’s drive to a
physical drive on the host computer. Select Use ISO Image if you want to
connect the virtual machine’s drive to an ISO image file.
4. Do one of the following:
If you selected Use physical drive, choose Auto detect.
Note: If you specify a particular physical drive, a CD drive must exist at the
specified drive letter on end users’ computers.
If you do not want the CD drive connected when the virtual machine starts,
deselect Connect at power on.
Click Advanced if you want to specify the device node the drive should use in
the virtual machine.
On the advanced settings panel you may also select Legacy emulation. This is
necessary only if you have had problems using normal mode. The legacy
emulation mode does not support all the capabilities of normal mode. For
example, if you are using legacy emulation mode, you cannot record CDs, you
cannot read multisession CDs, you cannot extract digital audio from a CD and
you cannot read or write DVDs. For details, see Legacy Emulation for DVD and
CD Drives on page 176.
After you have made any desired changes in these settings, click Finish.
If you selected Use ISO Image, enter the path and filename for the image file
or click Browse to navigate to the file.
If you do not want the CD drive connected when the virtual machine starts,
deselect Connect at power on.
Click Advanced if you want to specify the device node the drive should use in
the virtual machine.
After you have made any desired changes in these settings, click Finish.
5. The drive is set up initially so it appears to the guest operating system as an IDE
drive. If you want it to appear to the guest operating system as a SCSI drive, click
the drive’s entry in the virtual machine settings editor and make that change in
the settings panel on the right.