VirtualBox was originally created by InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008, which was in turn acquired by Oracle in 2010. Oracle VM VirtualBox (formerly Sun VirtualBox, Sun xVM VirtualBox and InnoTek VirtualBox) is a type-2 hypervisor for x86 virtualization developed by Oracle Corporation. GNU GPLv3 only with linking exception to GNU GPLv2 incompatible licenses X86-64 only (version series 5.x and earlier work on IA-32) Click OK to close the machine Settings dialog box and you are done! The CD/DVD image you selected will now be accessible to your virtual machine.Windows, macOS (only Intel-based Macs), Linux and Solaris When you return to the Virtual Media Manager dialog box, ensure that the correct ( a.) image is selected and click Select.ġ0. Another dialog box will open so that you can locate the image file you wish to add. When the Virtual Media Manager dialog box opens, click on Add – a separate dialog box will openħ. Click on the small folder icon located to the right of the CD/DVD Device drop-down.Ħ.

Under IDE Controller click on Empty (the Disc Icon)ĥ. Click on Storage located on the left paneĤ. Right-click on the machine you wish to add the image to.ģ.

Note: I used VirtualBox and a Windows 7 image for this how-to Add a CD/DVD Image to a VirtualBox Machineġ. If you have any comments or questions, please post them below. The process is fairly simple, but I thought I’d cover it here for those of you who may not know how to get to the right place in VirtualBox right away. I’ve already prepared the how-to on setting up a virtual machine in VirtualBox that will be published tomorrow, the how-to below will walk you through the process of adding a CD/DVD image to a Virtual CD/DVD drive so that, in my case, I could install Windows 7 and access said drive from the virtual machine I created. I’m away from my Windows 7 desktop this weekend and I promised myself I would write several Windows 7 how-to’s, unfortunately I’ve been dreading the upgrade process on my laptop so I’m going to end up using VirtualBox to run Windows 7 so I can write these articles.

Windows image for virtual box