Hi Michael, thanks, but unfortunately that doesn't help, either. Any other ideas?
Problem is that in the drop-down box the CD-ROM device isn't listed, at all, no matter if a CD is mounted on the host or not. The drop down box is just empty, no entry. Maybe I should make clear that I currently only have an empty Vbox, not really a "guest system", because due to the CD-ROM problem I am unable to install one... ;-) I thought of creating ISO images of everything I want to use in the guest system. However, as there is no shared folder and no clipboard supported for exchanging data with the host, I would be unable to save my data appropriately, then, because obviously DVD writers won't work, too. Thanks again for any ideas. Alex Michael Thayer wrote: > 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
