From: Dave Airlie (david.airlie at domain ul.ie)
Date: Mon 24 May 1999 - 18:02:04 IST
to the guest OS, the type of drive shouldn't matter unless its for booting
purposes ( I couldn't get it to boot from my parallel port CD-drive, but
Win95 accesses it no problems ...
Don't mount the drive under Linux either, just point vmware at the /dev
entry and that is all you should need.. take a looksee at
news://news.vmware.com and see if anyone their has had similiar probs ..
Dave.
On Mon, 24 May 1999, Vincent Cunniffe wrote:
> *snarl*
>
> Was trying out VMWare over the weekend, installing Win95 into a
> virtual machine. Naturally, the VM worked perfectly, but Win95, as
> usual, refuses pointblank to recognise the CD. This is a perfectly
> normal Pioneer 32X slotfeed ATAPI CD-ROM, on IDE1:0, and it's
> added correctly to the VM (if I have it mounted under Linux, the VM
> correctly warns me that it's unavailable), but Win95 simply cannot
> see it.
>
> Has anyone else successfully installed DOS mode ATAPI CD drivers
> under VMware, and got a CD working correctly?
>
> Vin
>
>
>
>
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