does vbox support SATA optical drives?

[khyron]

I'm somewhat of a n00b with vbox, so please forgive me if this is a bit naive...I'm more experienced with VMWare:

Using my Mac Pro, running 10.6.4 as a host OS, I am having difficulty figuring out how to expose my SATA BD/DVD/CD drive to my guests (one VM is running Windows XP, the other Ubuntu). Is this not possible at this time? I'm using the latest release of vbox if that matters...

[Entegy]

Nope. You can enable disc burning by enabling passthrough while using the physical drive(can't do audio discs though), but the vm will only ever see the device as IDE.

[khyron]

Nope. You can enable disc burning by enabling passthrough while using the physical drive(can't do audio discs though), but the vm will only ever see the device as IDE.

Interesting, where do I enable/choose/use this "passthrough" exactly? I don't think I've happened across that yet.

Do you know if there are any other formats that absolutely won't work in that manner, other than red book? I actually don't need to burn anything from a VM. Mostly I'd just want the drive to be accessible for reading, especially because the SATA drive in question can read BD/BD-R/BD-RE.

[Sasquatch]

Interesting, where do I enable/choose/use this "passthrough" exactly? I don't think I've happened across that yet.

Simply look at the storage section of the VM settings? Ever heard of a User Manual? Describes such things perfectly.