Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 22:02:34 +0000 (UTC) From: rondzierwa@comcast.net To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: using the host cd/dvd drive 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>
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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.
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