>Gurus,
>
>One of my former colleagues was able to make Virtual Server point at the
>contents of a CD-ROM, but the CD wasn't in the tray of the host machine! It
>contained the install files for MS Windows Server 2003. So I rebooted the
>Virtual Server, installed the OS from the contents of that CD-ROM,
>essentially creating a brand new OS replacing the old one. Once the new
>Virtual Server OS came up (and successfully I might add), I looked into the
>contents of the new CD-ROM and it was empty. So my question is, how did my
>colleague do that? (this person has since left the company, sadly).

> On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:05:20 -0500, "Spin" <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>
>>Gurus,
>>
>>One of my former colleagues was able to make Virtual Server point at the
>>contents of a CD-ROM, but the CD wasn't in the tray of the host machine!
>>It
>>contained the install files for MS Windows Server 2003. So I rebooted the
>>Virtual Server, installed the OS from the contents of that CD-ROM,
>>essentially creating a brand new OS replacing the old one. Once the new
>>Virtual Server OS came up (and successfully I might add), I looked into
>>the
>>contents of the new CD-ROM and it was empty. So my question is, how did
>>my
>>colleague do that? (this person has since left the company, sadly).
>
> It was probably an ISO CD image.
>
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> Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
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>
> Figured as much. But how did he point the Virtual Server CD at the ISO
> image? In other words, what options do you click on VS website to make that
> little piece of magic happen?
>