Alex Baer wrote:
> 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
>
>
Correction:
Now this works. My mistake was to only the GUI application. After stopping
the daemon and the GUI, unmounting the CD and restarting daemon and GUI
(not mounting the CD) the CD-ROM drive is seen.
However, I am already stuck again, with the following error message, for
which I think there's a separate thread, that I will join now, though noone
overthere has replied with a useful hint, yet... ;-)
Error message (for completeness) is:
Failed to start VM execution (VERR_ACCESS_DENIED).
Result Code: 0x80004005
Component: Console
Interface: IConsole {1dea5c4b-0753-4193-b909-22330f64ec45}
Cheers,
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
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