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?

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