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try burning an iso of your dvd and mount the iso in a virtual drive, hope helps, regards
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try burning an iso of your dvd and mount the iso in a virtual drive, hope helps, regards

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How do I do this and will it be accessible from a new virtual machine
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How do I do this and will it be accessible from a new virtual machine

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try here, regards<br />
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<a href="http://www.petri.co.il/use-iso-image-files-vmware.htm" rel="ugc">http://www.petri.co.il/use-iso-image-files-vmware.htm</a>
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try here, regards

http://www.petri.co.il/use-iso-image-files-vmware.htm [http://www.petri.co.il/use-iso-image-files-vmware.htm]

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I would rather sort the problem than have a work around if possible.
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I would rather sort the problem than have a work around if possible.

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Was this an upgrade or a fresh install?
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I had the same prob on 3.5. I forget my actual fix but I worked off this according to my notes:<br />
<a href="http://www.vmware.com/support/gsx3/doc/disks_opt_gsx.html" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.vmware.com/support/gsx3/doc/disks_opt_gsx.html</a>
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I had the same prob on 3.5. I forget my actual fix but I worked off this according to my notes:
http://www.vmware.com/support/gsx3/doc/disks_opt_gsx.html [http://www.vmware.com/support/gsx3/doc/disks_opt_gsx.html]

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Is the physical drive a cd/dvd or cdrom only?
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Is the physical drive a cd/dvd or cdrom only?

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The physical drive is a DVD drive.
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Have you tried just mounting the ISO file. &nbsp; Rather than placing a CD or DVD in the dirve, you just mount ISO file of the CD/DVD. &nbsp; 
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Have you tried just mounting the ISO file.   Rather than placing a CD or DVD in the dirve, you just mount ISO file of the CD/DVD.  

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I'm not sure how to mount the ISO file.
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I have set up an ESXI machine on a HP DC7600. <br />
The virtual machine (w2003) will not read DVD discs. <br />
If I place a CD disc in the drive reads OK, but doesn't recognise the DVD.<br />

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I have set up an ESXI machine on a HP DC7600. 
The virtual machine (w2003) will not read DVD discs. 
If I place a CD disc in the drive reads OK, but doesn't recognise the DVD.


VMWare ESXi 4 will recognise CDs but not DVDs in drive

Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media used to retain digital data. In addition to local storage devices like CD and DVD readers, hard drives and flash drives, solid state drives can hold enormous amounts of data in a very small device. Cloud services and other new forms of remote storage also add to the capacity of devices and their ability to access more data without building additional data storage into a device.

Storage

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.