Opened 12 years ago
Last modified 12 years ago
#11922 new task
Document on creating CD/DVD (and installing Guest Additions) do not mention VM must be shut down
Reported by: | David Biesack | Owned by: | |
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Component: | documentation | Version: | VirtualBox 4.2.14 |
Keywords: | storage, add CD/DVD device, disabled | Cc: | |
Guest type: | Linux | Host type: | Linux |
Description
I'm running a CentOS 6 VM guest on an XUbuntu 13.04 host using virtualbox 4.2.10_Ubuntu r84101
Under Machine -> Settings -> Storage, the menu item to "Add a CD/DVD Device" is disabled for both the IDE and SATA controllers.
Neither https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html#idp14782496 nor https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch03.html#settings-storage say anything about shutting down in order to use Device -> Storage -> Add CD/DVD Device.
The latter says "You can modify these media attachments freely."
Please add text to these manual pages to make it clear how to add a CD or DVD device.
For SATA, the disabled menu item is actually a bug. For IDE it works like designed because IDE cannot do hotplugging.