Use Burner From Win2k Guest

exwintech · Post by **exwintech** » 4. Aug 2008, 03:05

I've both Googled and searched here about something which would seem to be obvious - but apparently isn't. That is - how does one format and write to CD/DVDs and DVD-RAM from a Windows Guest in V-Box, running in a Linux Host?

The Windows Guest is Win2k-SP4. The Host is PCLinuxOS-2007. (Not running Beryl / Compiz, etc.)

The V-Box version is the current Sun Site version with USB-etc.

Guest Additions are in, and both USB and Shared Directory are working.

The application I'm attempting to run from Win2k is Roxio-6.1. While now 5 years old, it works 100% - including with DVD-RAM - in the 98SE I'm dual-booting with Linux. It does also work in installed Win2k.

I also have Roxio-7 - at present in another PC, but that could be shifted.

Any help would be very much appreciated, thanks.

Regards, Dave.

Post by **TerryE** » 6. Aug 2008, 02:19

There have been quite a few posts on the limitations in VBox CD/DVD support. If you look at the code for the DVD storage device, this really only supports reading from ISO files, so CD/DVD authoring will not work, and neither will CD audio ripping. All I can suggest is that you register with the trac system and add your comments to http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/903

exwintech · Post by **exwintech** » 7. Aug 2008, 04:41

Terry - Thanks for your attention.

Maybe the new version of Wine will allow such functions.

> I'd buy Crossover Linux if that did it.

Thanks again.

Regards, Dave.

Post by **stefan.becker** » 7. Aug 2008, 07:31

You know k3b, k9copy, lxdvdrip, brasero, ...?

exwintech · Post by **exwintech** » 7. Aug 2008, 12:13

Stefan - I'm running Windows 2000 in V-Box with PCLinuxOS as the Host.

I wanted to be able to write DVDs, etc from Win2k...

PCLOS as a Linux O/S has all of the things you mention - but none of them work from Win2k...

Regards, Dave.

Post by **stefan.becker** » 7. Aug 2008, 12:15

Yes. But you can burn with Linux. Why using Windows to burn?

Post by **TerryE** » 7. Aug 2008, 16:32

Yes Wine 1.1 might give you what you want. The other alternative is to use say samba-server on your PCLinuxOS to offer up a fileshare (this seems to be a tad more stable than VBox filesharing) and mount this in your W2K VM. If you W2K authoring S/W can create an ISO (which most can do) on this share instead of a burn, then as long as you have the spare HDD space you can use a two step process: create the ISO in W2K, then burn it to DVD using the sort of package that Stefan mentioned. An 8Gb memory stick is another alternative.

Perhaps a bit slower and slightly more complex, but this way you get to keep your W2K app functionality and can burn to disk.

JClosed · Post by **JClosed** » 7. Aug 2008, 19:36

I have been able to authorise and burn a DVD from Nero (Nero Vision) using a guest Windows XP. My host system was Mandriva 2008.1. The resulting DVD was perfectly playable in my portable DVD player.

The only thing I had to do is to enable Passtrough in the CD/DVD-ROM settings. I also made sure my DVD was not automatically mounted in my host system. As far as I know VirtualBox accesses the hardware as device (like /dev/hda) and not as mounted apparatus (like /mount/cdrom). If the host system automatically mounts /dev/hda to /mount/cdrom there could be some troubles writing the hardware directly. Again - I am not sure this is the case, but everything seems to work if I choose this setup.

Notice I only tested the above settings using a IDE DVD-burner. If this also works if you are using a SATA device I cannot say.

In Linux you can indeed use K3B (or Nero Linux if you want to pay some money). DVD authoring software is also available for Linux, but I must say it is rather primitive and a bit buggy at this moment. You can try out QDVDAuthor, DeVeDe, todiscGUI or DVD Author Wizzard. Copying a DVD can be done with K9copy and just ripping a DVD with dvd::rip.

So - here are several solutions. I hope this is helpfull..

Post by **TerryE** » 7. Aug 2008, 22:03

Thanks for the steer. I guess that I need to look at the Passthough code a little closer. The learning journey continues.