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Guest system wont see my DVD burner

Source: microsoft.public.virtualpc
Sent: 06/17/2009
From: Spacecadet <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

I'm running Vista 64bit and tring to run Windows XP 32bit in Virtual PC
2007. Everything is working fine with the exception of 2 things.

Everytime i reboot windows xp witin virtual pc i have to reset the
resolution, it always goes back to the 256 colours at 800 x 600.

Windows xp will not see my DVD burner. It says DVD rom in Windows
explorer but it wont read any cd's i put in. I tried clicking on "Take
over drive E:" or whatever the function is and it will read regular cd's
when i do that. However for some reason when i take control of drive E
from within windows xp in virtual pc it changes it to CDRW and only
reads regualr cd's it will not read or recognize DVD's.

Why?

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Spacecadet

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Re: Guest system wont see my DVD burner

Sent: 06/17/2009
From: "Steve Jain [MVP]" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:37:26 -0500, Spacecadet
<(email address - cut out)> wrote:

Because VPC emulates all the hardware except the CPU.
In a VM, you get a CD/DVD-ROM regardless of the host's hardware.

No currently VM solution provides an emulated DVD burner.

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Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/

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>
>I'm running Vista 64bit and tring to run Windows XP 32bit in Virtual PC
>2007. Everything is working fine with the exception of 2 things.
>
>Everytime i reboot windows xp witin virtual pc i have to reset the
>resolution, it always goes back to the 256 colours at 800 x 600.
>
>Windows xp will not see my DVD burner. It says DVD rom in Windows
>explorer but it wont read any cd's i put in. I tried clicking on "Take
>over drive E:" or whatever the function is and it will read regular cd's
>when i do that. However for some reason when i take control of drive E
>from within windows xp in virtual pc it changes it to CDRW and only
>reads regualr cd's it will not read or recognize DVD's.
>
>Why?

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