![]() ![]() ![]() I did what noteirak advised above (see his screenshots). I’m using host Mac OS (El Capitan), guest Windows XP professional 32-bit, VirtualBox 5.0.8. And am now able to use my DVD drive to download and setup software programs from CD/DVDs. Managed to get VirtualBox to recognise my DVD drive connected by USB. So now I don't even know if the disk image will work or how to access it without a shared folder. But VM VirtualBox Manager Shared Folders has "OK" grayed out when I enter path, folder name and select Auto-mount. I tried to create a shared folder with path Z:\Macintosh HD\Users\myname\Documents\Quicken. It came up with "Sun VirtualBox Setup Wizard." Not knowing if I should use that, I attempted to create a disk image using Mac Disk Utility. I used the Windows Toubleshooter to find the driver. In the system directory ("Computer") the CD drive shows up as D: The CD icon at the bottom of the window is greyed out, so I clicked on the USB icon. Now I'm trying to install a program in Win 7. I used a CD mounted on a USB drive (Macbook Air Superdrive) to install Windows 7, so Virtualbox recognized the CD as a CD. Your best bet is to create the DMG file and use that as a virtual CD. Even if you get it to show up as a USB CD in the virtual machine (with filters), I'm not sure it will boot from that. If I insert a disc it appears fine on my Mac desktop and I can create a DMG image using Disk Utility which I have done with an old Windows 98 CD but I want to install Windows XP without having to go through the hassle of converting it to a DMG image first.Ĭan anyone advise on what could be the problem? My USB drive is a Samsung Slim CD/DVD/Blu-Ray drive I purchased last year and is plugged directly into my Mac. If I go into the Drives options menu, it allows me to select a virtual disk image for the CD drive but there is no mention of my CD/DVD drive at all. Initially I thought the 'Live CD/DVD' option would use the DVD drive however whenever I start up a virtual machine to install an OS, it cannot detect a CD drive. If I add a CD/DVD drive to a virtual machine it asks me if I want to use a virtual disk image or Live CD/DVD. I'm running the latest version of VirtualBox on my MacBook Air (2013 model) on OS X 10.9 Maverick however I cannot seem to use my USB DVD drive with VirtualBox, it just doesn't seem to recognise it at all. ![]()
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