I have a USB BD-ROM drive which I would like to access from a Windows 7 guest running on a Windows 10 host.
I tried the following:
- Assign the drive from the menu after VM is started. I hear the sound that USB device was unattached from host, but then the following error pops up:
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00:01:29.006864 ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_FAIL (0x80004005) aIID={872da645-4a9b-1727-bee2-5585105b9eed} aComponent={ConsoleWrap} aText={Failed to create a proxy device for the USB device. (Error: VERR_PDM_NO_USB_PORTS)}, preserve=false aResultDetail=-2861
- Add a given USB device into VM's Settings→USB, and then restart VM. The same error above appears during VM startup.
- Create VMDK to allow direct access to the drive:
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C:> VBoxManage.exe internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename cdrom.vmdk -rawdisk \\.\PhysicalDrive1 VBoxManage.exe: error: Cannot get the geometry of the raw disk '\\.\PhysicalDrive1': VERR_IO_NOT_READY VBoxManage.exe: error: The raw disk vmdk file was not created
- Select host drive in VM settings (Storage → Optical drive options dropdown → Choose Host Drive X). This way I can access the drive, but low-level drive access (e.g. grabbing/burning) does not work.
P.S. VirtualBox v6.1.34, extensions are installed.