John Walsh
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Re: RE: Accessing a Virtual CD-Rom drive
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John Walsh
01/06/2009 8:01 AM
post19430
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Re: RE: Accessing a Virtual CD-Rom drive
OK, I found 1/2 of a solution. But, I don't think this is the best way because now I can not access my regular CD-rom.
If you open your VMWare .vmx file you can find some lines like this:
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "E:"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
This will mount your real CD-rom drive of you computer.
To access some virtual mounted image as a CD-rom drive you do this:
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "C:\<some path>\<some ISO file>.iso"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
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But, as I said, you should be able to access both by doing this:
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "E:"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
ide2:0.present = "TRUE"
ide2:0.fileName = "C:\<some path>\<some ISO file>.iso"
ide2:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
But when I do this I can never successfully access the second drive. Does anyone know how this can be done?
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