Connecting CD/DVD-ROM Drive

If you start a guest operating system with the CD/DVD-ROM drive enabled you can connect/disconnect it and change media it accesses while running the guest OS.

Note: If the guest OS was started with the CD/DVD-ROM drive disabled, you should shut down guest OS first, then enable CD/DVD-ROM in the Configuration Editor (select the Enabled checkbox in the CD/DVD-ROM Options tab) and restart the guest OS.

All commands to control CD/DVD-ROM during guest OS execution can be found in the Parallels Workstation Devices menu.

• Windows primary OS. If you have several CD/DVD-ROM drives connected to your Virtual Machine they can be identified according their IDE numbers (CD/DVD-ROM 00 means connected to IDE 0:0, CD/DVD-ROM 01 means IDE 0:1 and so on).
• Linux primary OS. If you have several CD/DVD-ROM drives connected to your Virtual Machine, in the Devices menu they are numbered according the order of their appearance. The first appeared CD/DVD-ROM will be CD/DVD-ROM 1, the second one will be CD/DVD-ROM 2 and so on.

To disable all CD/DVD-ROM operations while running guest OS click CD/DVD-ROM --> Disconnect in the Parallels Workstation Devices menu.

To reconnect CD/DVD-ROM again select CD/DVD-ROM --> Connect command in the Devices menu.

Data type accessed by the CD/DVD-ROM drive can be switched from a real CD/DVD-ROM to an image file and vice versa. Use CD/DVD-ROM --> Connect to and CD/DVD-ROM --> Connect image commands of the Parallels Workstation Devices menu.

Note: There is another way to perform all the actions described above. Right-click the CD/DVD-ROM icon on the status bar to display CD/DVD-ROM context menu and select the required command.