Adding a CD/DVD Drive

You can add up to four CD/DVD drives to your virtual machine. You can connect the virtual machine's drive to a physical drive or ISO image on your host machine or on the machine where you are running your browser.

To add a CD/DVD drive to a virtual machine

1. Make sure the virtual machine is powered off.
2. From the VI Web Access inventory, select the virtual machine.
3. On the Summary tab, under Commands, click Add Hardware.
4. Click CD/DVD Drive and click Next.
5. Choose one of the Media Type options:
   • Select Use a physical drive to connect the virtual machine's drive to a physical drive on the host or client computer.
   • Select Use an ISO image to connect the virtual machine's drive to an ISO image file on the host or client computer.
6. Click Next.
7. Perform one of the following actions:
   • If you select Host Media Use a physical drive, specify the drive to use and indicate whether the system should connect the device when the virtual machine powers on. To have the drive connected to the virtual machine when you power it on, select Connect at power on.
   • If you select Use a ISO Image, enter the path and filename for the image file or click Browse to navigate to the file. To have the drive connected to the virtual machine when you power it on, select Connect at power on.
   • If you select Client Media Use a physical drive, specify the drive to use.
8. Click Next.
9. Select the IDE Device Node from the drop-down menu.
10. Click Next.
11. Click Finish.