How to get my VM to use my cd/dvd player/burner

[dJbrohm]

Running Virtualbox 4.24 r81684 on Win 7 X64 Core I-7 3rd gen. cpu machine. I am new to this, but had no problem installing Virtual box and a VM running XP SP-3 with 512 MB of ram assigned.

My main reason for installing virtual box was so I can run an older Version of Roxio Easy Creator 9 on my new Windows 7 machine. It won't run directly on Windows 7.

The VM accesses my cd/dvd drive, on the VM "IDE Secondary Master: Host Drive "f:" I was able to run my Roxio install cd's ok to install the software. But the VM cd/dvd player will not play a standard DVD, I get the message "Insufficient video resources" even though I have set video memory to 128 MB. It also does not play standard audio cd's using windows media player. Roxio Easy Media Creator 9 suite runs fine, but does not recognize the drive. This same drive plays and burns cds and DVDs fine from the host. [Not with the roxio software which is not installed on the host.]

Is there a way to get some sort of playback and burning on this drive in the VM?

Thanks for any replies.

[noteirak]

Enable passthrough in the storage view for the cd/dvd drive

[dJbrohm]

Enable passthrough in the storage view for the cd/dvd drive

11/21/12 - Thanks, checked {passthrough}, will try it out after I return from Thanksgiving day trip next week. No time tonight, thanks for the suggestion.
11/29/12 - The checking of "Passthrough", made a lot of CD/DVD applications in Roxio Easy Media Creator Suite 9 function. I have not tried out everything yet, but am pleased. noteirak, Thanks for the tip.

[Weedman12]

When I want use a DVD i get error : This utility is not for this platform