CD/DVD Autorun possibly disabled?

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jason777
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CD/DVD Autorun possibly disabled?

Post by jason777 »

Hello all,

I'll start by saying I'm a little new to Virtualbox in general, but not totally to virtualization. Also, I apologize if this has been asked and answered but I did search the forum and couldn't seem to find it. I recently uninstalled VmWare and installed Virtualbox (for personal use not business). In the past when I've used Virtualbox, it was a piece of cake to install an OS on my new VM, by simply inserting a bootable DVD in my host drive and starting the VM for the first time, at which point it would boot from the DVD and I'd proceed with the install. However, I feel that something VmWare may have changed is making this not work properly. When I start my VM, regardless of which of my bootable ISO's I have in the drive, it tells me no bootable medium is found. I know the discs are good, and on top of that I've checked the autoplay settings in Windows 7 and they are all correct. I'm sure this is something simple I'm overlooking but any help on this would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance! :D
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Re: CD/DVD Autorun possibly disabled?

Post by BillG »

This has nothing to do with autorun in the host or the guest. There are a few things to check in the settings of the vm.

Under System, is your vm set to boot from DC/DVD (check mark in the box)?
Under Storage, is the controller set to use the host CD/DVD drive?
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Re: CD/DVD Autorun possibly disabled?

Post by jason777 »

Yes to both of those. The only reason I thought VmWare could be the culprit was because I read on a forum that VmWare sets certain registry values to control autorun to prevent conflicts between the 2. Not sure how true that is though...
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Re: CD/DVD Autorun possibly disabled?

Post by beresmo »

I have the same problem but I have never installed VMWare on this computer so I believe this has to do with something else. Did you find what the problem was?
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Re: CD/DVD Autorun possibly disabled?

Post by Perryg »

As for the no bootable image in the drive (which has nothing to do with autostart), in all cases it usually means just that. If you create your own CD/DVD you probably have an issue with the block size, or it is not a standard retail image.
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