Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:26:06 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Bernhard_Fr=F6hlich?= <decke@freebsd.org> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VirtualBox: why there is no Passthrough checkbox on Storage screen? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1210301823490.98120@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <CAE-m3X3pfQKXMKVmcvJ8yX86S2VC9fUJGSxtt2tzbuZeuf0GYA@mail.gmail.com> References: <508E56D2.7010106@rawbw.com> <CAE-m3X3pfQKXMKVmcvJ8yX86S2VC9fUJGSxtt2tzbuZeuf0GYA@mail.gmail.com>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --3512871622-402338384-1351643166=:98120 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Tue, 30 Oct 2012, Bernhard Fröhlich wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> wrote: >> All conditions from section 23.3.3 are satisfied (atapicam is in kernel and >> device permissions are right). >> But storage screen only allows me to select some iso file to export into >> guest. Passthrough checkbox never shows up on the Storage window. >> For example, under IDE I see "IDE Primary Master", etc choices, it says >> CD/DVD Drive but never offers passthrough (checkbox always stays invisible). >> >> How to understand why isn't passthrough available? >> >> DVD drive is recognized by system as: >> cd0 at ata2 bus 0 scbus9 target 0 lun 0 >> cd0: <PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112D 1.21> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device > > I've just verified it on my box and it just works. So it's hard to find out what > the problem is. I remember that I had some problems in the past after updating > the kernel but I did not recompile cdrtools or dvd+rw-tools which caused all the > atapi commands to strangely fail when trying to burn a DVD. VirtualBox also > uses that tools so I'd recommend that you just rebuild those two and check > if it helps. Try setting the VBOX_CDROM environment variable to the drive: setenv VBOX_CDROM /dev/cd0 or the sh(1) version: VBOX_CDROM=/dev/cd0 --3512871622-402338384-1351643166=:98120--
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