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PostPosted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:31 am    Post subject: VirtualBox-bin-2.0.2 no cdrom workaround Reply with quote

This is probably a virtualbox bug, but after I upgraded to 2.0.2, the program would not detect any of my cdroms. I found another post:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-559242-highlight-virtualbox+cdrom.html

which tells how to fix it, but I had to look, and it was older. Anyway, the fix is:

in your .VirtualBox/Machines/<MachineName>/<MachineName>.xml

make sure the following lines are in for any mention of the DVD Drive. These should be all you need.

Code:

<DVDDrive passthrough="true">
        <HostDrive src="/dev/<your dvd device>"/>
</DVDDrive>


Has anyone else had this problem? I am eventually going to post to the VirtualBox site, but this should work for now.
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