Re: using the host cd/dvd drive

2012-01-28 Thread Yuri
On 01/28/2012 22:12, Adam Vande More wrote: Hm, I guess you can use SATA now as well. Maybe that's new or maybe I misremembered. Or maybe it's you can't boot from a SATA CD/DVD in Vbox. There used to be some funkyness with something. When I am trying IDE controller, it offers me IDE Prim

Re: using the host cd/dvd drive

2012-01-28 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Yuri wrote: > So in guest Settings/Storage I added SCSI Controller, but gui options only > offer me to "Add Hard Disk", not DVD drive. > > virtualbox-ose-4.0.14 > FreeBSD-9.0-STABLE You have to attach it to an IDE controller. -- Adam Vande More

Re: using the host cd/dvd drive

2012-01-28 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:06 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Yuri wrote: > >> So in guest Settings/Storage I added SCSI Controller, but gui options >> only offer me to "Add Hard Disk", not DVD drive. >> >> virtualbox-ose-4.0.14 >> FreeBSD-9.0-STABLE > > > You have

Re: using the host cd/dvd drive

2012-01-28 Thread Yuri
On 05/18/2011 16:34, Adam Vande More wrote: what do i have to do to configure passthrough access to the host dvd drive? > http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox I also need passthrough for DVD burner. I followed instructions in the mentioned wiki page, but can't find how to add passthrough. My d

Re: using the host cd/dvd drive

2011-05-19 Thread rondzierwa
Thanks Adam, that did the trick! ron. - Original Message - From: "Adam Vande More" To: rondzie...@comcast.net Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 7:34:19 PM Subject: Re: using the host cd/dvd drive On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:02 PM,

Re: using the host cd/dvd drive

2011-05-18 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:02 PM, wrote: > what do i have to do to configure passthrough access to the host dvd drive? > http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mail

using the host cd/dvd drive

2011-05-18 Thread rondzierwa
I am running VirtualBox 3.2.12_ose from the ports collection in FreeBSD 8.2. I want to configure my WinXP guest so that it can access the physical host cd/dvd drive, hopefully with passthru enabled. When I add a CD/DVD device, it does not give me the option to select "Host Drive". In the "CD/DV