From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 18 22:15:49 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF16B106564A for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 22:15:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rondzierwa@comcast.net) Received: from qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B1B58FC17 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 22:15:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta16.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.88]) by qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id l97K1g0051uE5Es52A2bQ6; Wed, 18 May 2011 22:02:35 +0000 Received: from sz0128.wc.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.58.192]) by omta16.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id lA2a1g00a48qnZY3cA2b0u; Wed, 18 May 2011 22:02:35 +0000 Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 22:02:34 +0000 (UTC) From: rondzierwa@comcast.net To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Message-ID: <320352678.601405.1305756154826.JavaMail.root@sz0128a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <346778622.600878.1305755515482.JavaMail.root@sz0128a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [68.50.136.212] X-Mailer: Zimbra 6.0.5_GA_2431.RHEL5_64 (ZimbraWebClient - FF3.0 (Win)/6.0.5_GA_2427.RHEL4) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: using the host cd/dvd drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 22:15:50 -0000 I am running VirtualBox 3.2.12_ose from the ports collection in FreeBSD 8.2. I want to configure my WinXP guest so that it can access the physical host cd/dvd drive, hopefully with passthru enabled. When I add a CD/DVD device, it does not give me the option to select "Host Drive". In the "CD/DVD Device" dropdown the only selections I get are the ISO's I defined in storage manager, and "Empty". The folder Icon beside it only takes me to storage manager. The "Passthrough" checkbox is gray'ed out. My physical DVD drive is /dev/acd0. I have tried creating a sym link from it to /dev/cdrom, to no avail. I have tried the storageattach command with VBoxManage with --medium host:/dev/acd0 --type dvddrive and --medium host:/dev/cdrom and I get a "Invalid host DVD drive name" error. I have tried changing the permissions on /dev/acd0 to rwxrwxrwx, and changing the ownership to me, still no difference. what do i have to do to configure passthrough access to the host dvd drive? thanks, ron.