How to Mount optical drive to XP

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rjmiii
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How to Mount optical drive to XP

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Newbie on this. My operating system is windows 10. I looked through the topics but did not see exactly what I wanted. I have an XP virtual box using virtualbox 5.0 (free version). I have xp loaded and have updated to sp3. I can find and load software to the xp virtual machine but when I run a game, the xp game can not find the cd in the cd reader. Please help. Thanks.
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Re: How to Mount optical drive to XP

Post by BillG »

If the guest is running, click on Devices in the top menu and in Optical Devices select Host Drive.

If the machine is shutdown (not paused or in a saved state) you can do the same thing from the Settings menu.
Bill
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