On 03/11/2010 11:48 PM, Frank Mehnert wrote: > On Friday 12 March 2010, JD wrote: > >> On FC12, Kernel 2.6.32.9-70.fc12.i686 >> VirtualBox-3.1-3.1.4_57640_fedora12-1.i686 >> >> I created a vmdk for 185GB USB HD. >> I created and configured a new machine "winxp" >> with the vmdk I created earlier as the HD. >> I inserted the windows CD in the drive. >> I started the machine. I pressed F12 so >> I could choose the medium to boot from. >> I selected c (the CDROM). >> I get >> Fatal: Could read from the boot medium. System Halted. >> Just to be sure the cdrom device was readable: >> >> $ ls -l /dev/sr0 >> brw-rw-rw-+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 2010-03-11 09:21 /dev/sr0 >> $ ls -l /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2010-03-11 09:21 /dev/cdrom -> sr0 >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2010-03-11 09:21 /dev/dvd -> sr0 >> >> The media is a Microsoft windows XP installation CD. >> I can boot it up by itself on the real HW without problems. >> >> Let me know if you need more info. >> > Sounds like you just forgot to attach the physical CDROM drive > to the VM. Go the the VM settings and attach the host CDROM > drive to the VM. > > Kind regards, > > Frank > > Hello Frank, I actually did try to do that before i submitted the problem. But for some reason, I am unable to select what device gets to be the cdrom. In other words, in the Storage configuration, I do not see a configurable item for cdrom. Only the HD shows up. So, I must be doing something wrong not to see how to configure the cdrom, but just not sure where I can do that.
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