id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,guest,host 2864,Not possible to freely assign which IDE port is used for which device => Fixed in SVN,rcfa,,"Some operating systems, among them OpenStep and NeXTSTEP, require non-standard assignment of CD-ROM drives and hard drives. It is seemingly currently not possible to assign the CD-ROM drive to the primary IDE slave port, only to the secondary master port. While it would be possible to edit the XML file to reflect different settings, launching such a machine results in an error. Due to this, I cannot load drivers into the virtual machine which reside on a CD-ROM or CD-ROM disk image, because the CD drive can't be seen on the currently assigned IDE port. The only alternative would be to use a SCSI CD-ROM drive, but since SCSI is not emulated by VirtualBox that's not an option either. It really should be not up to the emulation software to decide on which port I have what. If we emulate a dual-channel IDE interface, each with master and slave device, then I should be able to have three CD-ROM drives and one hard drive, or four hard drives and no CD-ROM device, or a CD-ROM drive at some random, non-standard port. Since VMWare Fusion and Parallels Desktop for other reasons are incapable of running OpenStep and NeXTSTEP, this is a total show-stopper to run some legacy OS.",defect,closed,virtual disk,VirtualBox 2.1.0,fixed,IDE port assignments,rcfa,other,other