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How do you map a shared CD/DVD drive on the host to a drive letter on the Gues in Windows Virtual PC?


In the previous versions of Virtual PC, the Host's CD/DVD drives just get assigned drive letters. Nice and neat.

But in Windows Virtual PC (Win 7) the drives are all just available but without drive letters. I need to access the Host's CD drive using a drive letter.


Solution

  • I figured it out:

    You can go into Tools > Settings > DVD Drive Then in the properties you can assign that drive (on the Guest O/S) to a folder, drive, etc.

    It defaulted (rather ignorantly :-( to the Host's D: drive, which isn't a CD drive at all so it looked like it was broken.