On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 13:55, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > VBox 2.2.2; OS X 10.4.11 host; OpenSolaris 11 guest. > > I have never (back through 1.whatever) been able to > unmount a .iso image and mount a different one on a > runing VM. When I select the unmount option, whether > from the Devices menu or from the icon, the change > appears immediately in the VBox console, but the image > remains mounted on the VM Desktop and in "ls /media". > > I can unmount it with "sudo umount". When I try to > mount another .iso image, again the change appears > immediately in the VBox console, but VM never detects > the mount. > > My only recourse is to reboot the VM to swap .iso images. > I need to do this, for example, to install the Guest > Additions; when I try it from the Devices menu it > quietly fails with no error message. > > I can use VBoxManage to define images on the VM, but this > doesn't mount them on the guest, AFAICT. > > Thanks, > gil >
Gil, Did you try umounting the disk in the VM BEFORE hiting "Devices -> Umount CD/DVD-ROM" on VirtualBox? _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
