Hello Alex, Try manually unmounting your CD drive on the host before starting the guest system.
Regards, Michael Alex Baer wrote: > Hi there, > > with the kind help of Chris Wolfe here and the helpful bunch at > LinuxQuestions.org I finally got VirtualBox OSE 1.3.3 compiled and was able > to start the GUI and create a new virtual bootdisk. So far so good. > > Now I would like to install the guest system, Windows Media Center Edition, > from CD. However, VirtualBox doesn't "see" the CD-ROM. > > I have checked everything as suggested in the user manual chapter > 9.4.2 "Linux host's CD/DVD drive not found". > > I have (without success) tried/checked this: > > - My user is a member of group cdrom > - The device is group mountable, defined in /etc/fstab like so: > > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,users,ro 0 0 > > - export VBOX_CDROM='/dev/hdc:/dev/cdrom:/dev/cdrom0', because my CD-ROM > drive is /dev/hdc and the other device names just symlink to it. > - I checked /etc/mtab, and when a CD was mounted there was a proper entry > for it > > But nothing helped. What's wrong or missing here? > > Thanks in advance! > > Alex Baer _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
