mount a folder as a Virtual CD drive.

[dcneuro]

How do you mount a desktop folder to run as a virtual drive? I have chosen "choose a virtual CD/DVD file" from under "CD/DVD devices", however, when I try to go the folder I want, it seems to want to go to a file rather than dimply to the folder. The folder contains an older software application, the contents of which were copied into this folder on my desktop. I have tried allowing "all files" and directing to the setup.exe file, this gives me an error message when try ing to mount it.

[dcneuro]

Here is the detailed error message:

Failed to open the optical disk file /Users/dcneuro/Desktop/Spectrum/setup.exe.

Could not get the storage format of the medium '/Users/dcneuro/Desktop/Spectrum/setup.exe' (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED).

Result Code: VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80BB0005)
Component: Medium
Interface: IMedium {05f2bbb6-a3a6-4fb9-9b49-6d0dda7142ac}
Callee: IVirtualBox {fafa4e17-1ee2-4905-a10e-fe7c18bf5554}
Callee RC: VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80BB0001)

[mpack]

A CD is a CD. A folder is a folder. One can't be the other. You can however mount a host folder as a shared folder. See section 3.11 of the current user manual.