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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!

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?

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...

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?

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.