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Kuci

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Registered: 2013-03-29

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DVD drive rawdisk for Virtual Box

Hello, dear Archers !

I know this not an appropriate forum for such a question, but I don't wanna register on VB's forum (I don't like how much Oracle would like to know about me ). So, here is my question.

I'm trying to use DVD drive of host system as a physical drive in guest system. I mean, using host's DVD drive directly on guest system, so guest system would see which device it really is. So, I'm trying to use this command to generate a rawdisk for this drive:

VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename dvd.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/cdrom

However, I'm getting this error:

VBoxManage: error: Cannot open the raw disk '/dev/cdrom': VERR_MEDIA_NOT_PRESENT
VBoxManage: error: The raw disk vmdk file was not created

Is there any chance to bypass this error ? I just wanna connect this drive to guest system, so I could be able to, for example, flash and stuff like that...

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