As per the topic, how can I make my DVD drive visable/usable in my Gnome Boxes VM? It’s an internal drive (SATA, I’m sure) and I’m running a Windows VM, if that helps.
I can see the options in Preferences to pass through a USB drive, but not a DVD drive. Thanks.
I never did work this out. Can anyone help?
Have you tried to make the DVD into an ISO and attach the ISO file?
I’m not sure I understand. I know how to rip DVDs to ISO files, but I specifically want to rip in Windows. So I need the DVD drive to be visible in a VM, and my preferred software is Boxes.
got it sorry I thought you had a DVD that you wanted to disable in boxes. None of my current rigs have built in DVD players, I use a usb one when I need it so I’m afraid I can’t help. Hopefully someone who knows boxes better can help.
You will need to manually edit XML configuration for that. Open the Preferences of your Boxes virtual machine and click edit config
When you open the VM’s XML file, in the devices node add something like this
<disk type="block" device="cdrom">
<driver name="qemu" type="raw"/>
<source dev="/dev/cdrom"/>
<target dev="hdd" bus="sata"/>
<readonly/>
</disk>
Adjust the dev attributes based on your local system (i.e /dev/sr0-1, /dev/cdrom0-1).