DVD drive instead of CD drive

[AntonFromSweden]

Dear contributors of this forum,

I have compared Windows XP (x86 in Swedish with SP3) as a guest on VirtualBox (version 7.0.24) with having it as a guest on Hyper-V (with Windows 10 x64, version 22H2, as the host). Mainly, VirtualBox is easier to use and offers more alternatives, according to my opinion, except for VirtualBox not being available in Swedish.

However, there is one main (visual?) difference between Windows XP on VirtualBox and Windows XP on Hyper-V: VirtualBox shows a CD drive and Hyper-V shows a DVD drive. Sadly enough, I was unsuccessful in providing screen shots, but it should be easy to reproduce my question; attach a CD/DVD drive to any (Windows) virtual machine in VirtualBox and it will show up as a CD drive inside the VM. Attach a CD/DVD drive to any (?) virtual machine in Hyper-V and it will appear as a DVD drive inside the VM.

As far as I'm aware, VirtualBox is able to play DVD's and DVD-ROM's, so maybe this is mainly a cosmethic question: is it possible to make the DVD drive appear in VirtualBox as well, instead of the CD drive, for example by using some "setextradata" value? In addition, are there any more "setextradata" (or similar) values available for this case, for example for making the CD drive appear as a DVD-RW drive to the guest?

Please tell me if you didn't understand my question and I will give it another try. The main part is in italic above.

Thank you in advance!

Yours sincerely,
Anton from Sweden

[klaus]

From our experience the difference is entirely cosmetic. That said - currently VirtualBox always reports the drive as CD-ROM (we have a todo in the code to report DVD when the image is beyond the limit - but there was no trouble reported by anyone so we didn't do this yet).

[AntonFromSweden]

Okay, I see. Thank you for the answer!