[vbox-dev] Latest release to SVN causes CD/DVD to be invalid

Frank Mehnert frank.mehnert at oracle.com
Fri Jul 8 07:34:52 GMT 2011


On Friday 08 July 2011 00:20:28 Perry Halbert wrote:
> Latest update from SVN
> 
> Trying to attach the VirtualBox Guest-Additions.iso to the CD/DVD drive
> produces the following error.
> 
> Failed to save the settings of the virtual machine (name)
> Setting the non-rotational medium flag rejected as the device
> attached to device slot 0 on port 1 of controller 'IDE Controller' is
> not a hard disk.
> 
> Guest is Windows XP pro and I have been installing additions the same
> old way for a long time.
> Really doesn't matter the guest though.  I tested this on several guests
> Windows, Linux and none of them work.
> 
> Ideas on how to proceed?

Yes -- just do 'svn update' and recompile :)

Kind regards,

Frank
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