8.04 Hardy Host, XP Guest, enable CD burning in XP

[tonyargento]

Has anyone had any success in enabling CD burning through a Windows XP host in Virtual Box? I am able to burn CDs through Brasero in Ubuntu (8.04 64 bit), but in my XP .vdi machine, it only shows my optical drive as a CD-ROM and Nero doesn't detect it as a recording device. Any help would be appreciated.

[bradmkjr]

Sorry, bad news, you can't.

Virtualization has one major draw back, all the computer hardware is virtualized. which means for it to work across all platforms, they use "The lowest common Denominator", so until recently it has been 10/100 nic, stereo sound card, ide or scsi drives and most importantly for you a cdrom drive, not a burner, not a dvd or not even a dvd burner.

There are 2 ways which may work for you to burn a cd "in windows", the first is use an external USB cd burner drive, those can be picked up cheaply at a local computer shop. The second option is create an ISO file, and move it to a shared folder then burn the iso in Ubuntu.

Sorry for the bad news,
Bradford Knowlton
http://x86v.com/