Virtual Box/how to switch to CD/DVD Drive

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jmarcus28
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Virtual Box/how to switch to CD/DVD Drive

Post by jmarcus28 »

I have a huge problem. I have a Mac and running Windows 7 as guest. Everything is working fine but it is not reading my Optical Disk drive. Not to sure what the problem is but its giving me an error code which i dont understand.




Result Code:
VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80BB0005)
Component:
Medium
Interface:
IMedium {53f9cc0c-e0fd-40a5-a404-a7a5272082cd}
Callee:
IVirtualBox {c28be65f-1a8f-43b4-81f1-eb60cb516e66}
Perryg
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Re: Virtual Box/how to switch to CD/DVD Drive

Post by Perryg »

Enable passthrough in the guest settings -> storage for the CD/DVD and see if it works.
jmarcus28
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Re: Virtual Box/how to switch to CD/DVD Drive

Post by jmarcus28 »

Did that and still giving me the samne error message. Any other suggestions. I use VB on a external HD so not to sure if that plays a part of VB not recongizing the CD drive
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Re: Virtual Box/how to switch to CD/DVD Drive

Post by Perryg »

You store the images on an external drive, or you use portable VirtualBox?
jmarcus28
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Re: Virtual Box/how to switch to CD/DVD Drive

Post by jmarcus28 »

Stored it on an External
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