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I'm running VirtualBox 3.0.6 on Windows Vista Ultimate x64 SP1. I have 2 guests currently, Fedora 11 x86_64 and Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. Both have the Guest Additions installed. The problem I have is that neither VM is able to access a mounted host CD-ROM with an audio CD, only data. Any ideas on what to check?

The only purpose the the Fedora VM will serve initially is to rip CDs with Grip, and get rid of a physical machine, so I'd love to get this working. I enabled passthrough, and that let me see the disc, but the host locked up after a few seconds of trying to rip a CD.

An audio CD cannot be mounted, because there is no filesystem on it.

An audio CD only can be played.

For the Guest you can check to enable Passthrough for DVD/CD in the guest settings.

For linux hosts there is a special driver called "cdsfs" to mount audio cds as a filesystem.

Yeah, I just found I can't mount an audio CD before I came back to this. With Passthrough enabled, it shows the tracks, but playback doesn't work and it always locks up the host when I try to rip a CD.

I was trying to think of a way around this and tried connecting a USB CD-ROM drive and connecting it to the VM as a USB device, but that too doesn't appear to work. Data CDs don't even appear in the VM with this method.

I can connect to an audio CD on the host in Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, but sound doesn't work in a Fedora 11 guest (at least not with my setup), so I can't play anything back. I came to VirtualBox for 64-bit guest support and better Linux support.

VB cannot play audio CDs atm. It's not used often and the Host has already the proper tools to play and/or rip tracks from it. I'm guessing that it takes too much effort to get audio CDs to show up and work properly inside a VM than that it pays back (e.g. 100 hours of programming and testing compared to a few users that need it).