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I inserted the disk to my mac with a cd/dvd reader drive and I created a .cdr file from it's it, then tried converting it to .iso, got this error message.

Failed to open the disk image file /Path/Game.iso.

Could not get the storage format of the medium '/Path/Game.iso' (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED).

Result Code: VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80BB0005)
Component: MediumWrap
Interface: IMedium {ad47ad09-787b-44ab-b343-a082a3f2dfb1}
Callee: IVirtualBox {d0a0163f-e254-4e5b-a1f2-011cf991c38d}
Callee RC: VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80BB0001)


What do I do to install it on the virtualbox?

saramos64 wrote: Could not get the storage format of the medium '/Path/Game.iso' (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED).

This error means that, whatever you did, the result was not a valid IS0-9660 (or later derived variants) format CD/DVD disk image.

So how exactly did you create the .cdr?

p.s. I'm reasonably sure that .cdr and .iso are the same thing anyway. I.e. there's no need for a conversion step. The VirtualBox CD mounting dialog accepts both extensions.

I created it through Disk Utility in mac, just by File>New>Disk image from device, I made it with no encryption and as the CD/DVD master so it's a .cdr file.

If it's a raw image of a data CD/DVD then it's already an "ISO" and nothing else needs to be done to it, you can go ahead and mount it in the optical drive of a VM.

The filename extension just helps reduce the scope of error in file open dialog box. In any case, as previously mentioned, the VirtualBox dialog has explicit support for the .cdr extension as well as the .iso extension.

Well I tried with the .cdr file I made and it gives me this error:

Failed to open the disk image file /Path/Game.cdr.

Could not get the storage format of the medium '/Path/Game.cdr' (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED).

Result Code: VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80BB0005)
Component: MediumWrap
Interface: IMedium {ad47ad09-787b-44ab-b343-a082a3f2dfb1}
Callee: IVirtualBox {d0a0163f-e254-4e5b-a1f2-011cf991c38d}
Callee RC: VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80BB0001)


NOTE: that the original file I made was a .cdr and I made a copy and converted it to .iso, I've ran both of them on the storage disk mount in the settings and both give me the same error

saramos64 wrote:VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED

mpack wrote:This error means that, whatever you did, the result was not a valid IS0-9660 (or later derived variants) format CD/DVD disk image.

Every time the error comes up, that is what it means.
Something about how you're making this CDR / ISO is not standards-compatible.

Well shoot, how can I make a compatible .cdr out of the physical CD-ROM?

That would be a subject for a web-search. (Making ISO's isn't in the scope of the forum.) Once you have a standards-compatible ISO, then we can help you use it.

On a Windows host, you could use ImgBurn to rip physical CDs and DVDs to ISO. A Mac host must have an ISO maker program that can be downloaded. Especially look for a program that will compare the new ISO to the disc, to verify it was written properly.

saramos64 wrote:medium '/Path/Game.iso'

It also strikes me that if this is a game that must have the CD present to run, then making it an ISO might not work anyway. Some games had a 'copy protection' made of bad sectors that don't copy correctly to ISO, and won't read as the game expects if it did copy to an ISO.

Well I fixed the problem by taking a completely different approach. I just added my external DVD-drive in the "Ports" section in the settings and the WindowsXP guest was able to recognize it and allow to read CD-ROMs live. Here is the post I made asking and solving that problem. viewtopic.php?f=2&t=104880&p=511407#p511407