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The penny drops...

Sorry I've been using the wrong terminology.

Substitute dvd drive for dvd-rom.

(I've edited previous post to reflect this!!)

Thank you for your speedy reply. The linux host machine has a cd drive which works perfectly and when the remote dvd drive is mounted on the host machine this too works but only when accessing an iso image on the dvd volume. I envisaged using the remote dvd drive to try out new distros which I recei...

Hello I wish to use my laptop dvd drive remotely to start a guest on a networked pc. Presently I can start a guest on virtualbox using an iso image on the dvd drive on the laptop if I mount the nbd device on the pc. However I can not start a live dvd/cd on the laptop to start a guest on the pc. Firs...