Ticket #5809 (closed defect: fixed)
DVD-image not available if attached via command line
Reported by: | cfturkja | Owned by: | |
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Component: | DVD | Version: | VirtualBox 3.1.0 |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
Guest type: | Linux | Host type: | Linux |
Description
(This may be related to ticket:5681)
On my guest OS setup I do not have any DVD-images mounted. After starting the VM and using VBoxManage controlvm dvdattach to attach the drive, does not make the image available. On 3.0.x that did work.
I checked this from GUI and using dvdattach from CLI does not make the CD/DVD activity "led" on the bottom of the screen enabled. Mounting the image from GUI enables the "led" and makes the image available for the guest OS.
Change History
comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by cfturkja
For example:
VBoxManage controlvm "<VM name here>" dvdattach none
does not release the DVD-image, nor:
VBoxManage controlvm "<VM name here>" dvdattach /path/to/an/iso/image.iso
does not change currently inserted media.
comment:4 Changed 11 years ago by sandervl73
- Status changed from new to closed
- Resolution set to fixed
These command line parameters are now obsolete. See http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html#vboxmanage-storage
You should have received an error though. Will fix that.
comment:5 Changed 11 years ago by frank
To be more verbose:
Note that the syntax of attaching/detaching a medium to/from a VM has changed. As now we support more than one CD/DVD device, one must specify the exact controller / port / device, see the user manual section 8.15.2. The old commands dvdattach/dvddetach are still there but apparently are broken now (though they don't appear in the help anymore). Do the following:
- Excecute VBoxManage showvminfo VM_NAME
This will show you the name of your storage controller, for instance... IDE Controller (0, 0): ... IDE Controller (1, 0): ...
- In the example above, the second device is the CDROM device (secondary master). Use
VBoxManage storageattach VM_NAME \ --storagectl "IDE Controller" \ --port 1 \ --device 0 \ --medium IMAGE.iso
This will mount the file IMAGE.iso to the secondary master.
Corretion: It seems that DVD-media cannot be controlled form command-line at all.
The defect is present in not-yet-released 3.1.2 also.