No virtual cdrom

[dam00000007]

Hello

I have a Alienware M11X running under Windows 7which doesn't have any physical cd/dvd drive.
I have installed a Wmware version of Ubuntu in the Wmware player.
Now I have to install Wmware Tools, which has been downloaded by Wmware player automatically.
When I press install, Wmware ask for a virtual drive, which apparently I don't have.

I found the procedure on Wmware website

mkdir /mnt/cdrom; mount /dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom
cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-<version>.tar.gz /tmp/
cd /tmp/
tar zxpf VMwareTools-<version>.tar.gz 
cd vmware-tools-distrib/
./vmware-install.pl

But after the first command I have:

mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist

I tried to do:

mkdir /dev/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount: /dev/cdrom/ is not a block device

My question is, how to create a virtual drive under ubuntu or how to make /dev/cdroma block device in order to complete the installation of Vmware tools?

Regards

Dam

[nothingspecial]

Thread moved to Virtualization.

[pcpbslack]

I don't know if you solved this, but I found myself in the same situation in many occasions.

Normally, you should check in the /var/log/syslog which device block has been assigned to the CDROM and then type in the console:
sudo /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom

/dev/sr0 was the assigned device block to the CDROM