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Can"t access DVD Drive

Source: microsoft.public.virtualserver
Sent: 04/16/2007
From: Bob
Message:

I'm using "Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 â€“ Beta 2" and I can not get any of my
virtual machines to read any disk in the DVD-ROM drive. When I attach a
"Physical CD/DVD drive" using my "Drive F" or "Drive G", using either the
primary or secondary channels, the OS running in the virtual machine will
display a window that states:

"Windows cannot access this disc".
"The disk might be corrupt".

The OS running in the virtual machine is Vista and another is Server 2003.

If I share the DVD drive at the host, the virtual machines can find it and
read the DVD's contents.

My two virtual machines were created with ISO images, so I didn't need the
physical drive to work. But now I'm trying to install another OS and all I
have is a physical media that the new virtual machine can not recognize.

I've two identical Dell XPS-410 machines both of which are running "Virtual
Server 2005 R2 SP1 â€“ Beta 2" on top of Windows Server 2003 SP2 R2 Enterprise
Edition hosts.

The only difference between the two is one is has "Sony" brand DVD drives
and the other has some other brand. The â€œSonyâ€ machine is failing.

What could be causing this error?
--
Bob

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RE: Can"t access DVD Drive

Sent: 04/16/2007
From: Bob
Message:

A little extra:

If the DVD drive were not attached, selecting the "DVD Drive (D:)" icon in
Windows Explorer displays "Please insert a disk into drive F:".

So apparently the Virtual Server is attaching the DVD drive as the message I
receive is an error about the disk being corrupt (when the drive is attached).
--
Bob

RE: Can"t access DVD Drive

Sent: 04/17/2007
From: Olaf
Message:

Bob.
I run into the same phenomena here.
But what I figured out:
I Have to first attach "No Media" to the Virtual CD-Drive. Afterwards I
could successfully attached a "physical media" to the VM.

Olaf

"Bob" wrote:

Show quoted text

> A little extra:
>
> If the DVD drive were not attached, selecting the "DVD Drive (D:)" icon in
> Windows Explorer displays "Please insert a disk into drive F:".
>
> So apparently the Virtual Server is attaching the DVD drive as the message I
> receive is an error about the disk being corrupt (when the drive is attached).
> --
> Bob

RE: Can"t access DVD Drive

Sent: 04/17/2007
From: Bob
Message:

Hi Olaf,
I always leave all my virtual machines with "no media". I only attach a
physical drive when I need one (which requires a shutdown of course, but I'm
fine with that). I even tried removing the virtual cd/dvd drive, but this
didn't work either.
--
Bob

RE: Can"t access DVD Drive

Sent: 04/17/2007
From: Olaf
Message:

Bob,
what I did was before attaching a "physical drive" explictly capturing "no
media" to this virtual dvd-drive an pressing OK and afterwards select the
"physical drive" to capture and press OK again.
This works for me.
Or did I get you wrong?

Olaf

Show quoted text

> Hi Olaf,
> I always leave all my virtual machines with "no media". I only attach a
> physical drive when I need one (which requires a shutdown of course, but I'm
> fine with that). I even tried removing the virtual cd/dvd drive, but this
> didn't work either.
> --
> Bob

RE: Can"t access DVD Drive

Sent: 04/17/2007
From: Bob
Message:

I think we are saying the same thing.

When I say that I leave my virtual machines attached to "no media" all the
time, that is equivalent to you saying "before attaching a physical drive,
[you] explicitly capture no media".

I've toggled back and forth between no media, physical drive and removing
the drive. Each change requires clicking the OK button to make it effective.
Each change also requires the virtual OS to be shutdown. The virtual OS does
have different symptoms depending if it is: no media, physical drive, or
removed. The observations for no media and removed are what they should be .
I know this because I have several host machines with virtual servers sw on
each.

Thanks for trying though.

--
Bob

"Olaf" wrote:

Show quoted text

> Bob,
> what I did was before attaching a "physical drive" explictly capturing "no
> media" to this virtual dvd-drive an pressing OK and afterwards select the
> "physical drive" to capture and press OK again.
> This works for me.
> Or did I get you wrong?
>
> Olaf
>
> > Hi Olaf,
> > I always leave all my virtual machines with "no media". I only attach a
> > physical drive when I need one (which requires a shutdown of course, but I'm
> > fine with that). I even tried removing the virtual cd/dvd drive, but this
> > didn't work either.
> > --
> > Bob

RE: Can"t access DVD Drive

Sent: 04/18/2007
From: Olaf
Message:

It definetly works for me, sorry.
I'm with you when you are saying that it needs an OK after every change. But
what I can not understand, and I did not need to do, is a reboot of the VM if
capturing a media. For changing the Attachment channel or removing the whole
Virtual CD/DVD drive you have to reboot, but for capturing a media, I never
had to reboot!

Regards
Olaf

"Bob" wrote:

Show quoted text

> I think we are saying the same thing.
>
> When I say that I leave my virtual machines attached to "no media" all the
> time, that is equivalent to you saying "before attaching a physical drive,
> [you] explicitly capture no media".
>
> I've toggled back and forth between no media, physical drive and removing
> the drive. Each change requires clicking the OK button to make it effective.
> Each change also requires the virtual OS to be shutdown. The virtual OS does
> have different symptoms depending if it is: no media, physical drive, or
> removed. The observations for no media and removed are what they should be .
> I know this because I have several host machines with virtual servers sw on
> each.
>
> Thanks for trying though.
>
> --
> Bob
>
>
> "Olaf" wrote:
>
> > Bob,
> > what I did was before attaching a "physical drive" explictly capturing "no
> > media" to this virtual dvd-drive an pressing OK and afterwards select the
> > "physical drive" to capture and press OK again.
> > This works for me.
> > Or did I get you wrong?
> >
> > Olaf
> >
> > > Hi Olaf,
> > > I always leave all my virtual machines with "no media". I only attach a
> > > physical drive when I need one (which requires a shutdown of course, but I'm
> > > fine with that). I even tried removing the virtual cd/dvd drive, but this
> > > didn't work either.
> > > --
> > > Bob

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