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Hi
I'm pretty new to virtualbox and I have searched for an answer but none appeared satisfactory.I run linux mint 6 as host with a legal copy of windows xp pro 32bit as virtual machine. My question is why does the the software cd I purchased refuse to run and asks for the original cd to be inserted? I believe it must be something to do with protection software but if everything I have is original and licensed why cannot VB read it?
Yes it works perfectly on a native windows machine.
Am I missing something or doing something wrong or is this the big drawback with virtualisation.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Andy

You can try to enable Passthrough for the physical device. Other than that, well, that's indeed the drawback of virtualization. Not all options work for the cdrom. Most notable is playing audio CD's. That doesn't work with VB.

Thanks for the reply I will give passthrough a try if not it looks like I'll have to dust off my gparted disk!
Regards
Andy

Hi again
Yes I have tried passthrough and it does not work this is a shame as I did not want to install windows on a partion but hey ho thats life. Out of curiosity is this problem a hardware or software problem for VB
Regads
andy

Try creating an image of the cd and use that instead.

I'm having the same problem. Programs install from cd's normally but never seem to actually find them during runtime. The strange thing is that daemon tools exibits the same behaviour... Is there any way to solve this problem at all?