The Configuration Wizard determines if you have a CD-ROM, CD-R or DVD-ROM configured on your host machine. Only one CD-ROM drive can be configured using the Configuration Wizard. If necessary, you can use the Configuration Editor to add CD-ROM drives later. Note that most operating systems require the use of a CD-ROM for installation.
Under certain circumstances this device might not always be available to the virtual machine; for example, a portable computer may have a detachable CD-ROM drive that may be disconnected and therefore unavailable to the virtual machine. If this is the case, deselect the Start with CD-ROM connected option. This prevents the virtual machine from trying to access the CD-ROM when in powers on. If the device becomes available later, it can be connected from the Devices menu.
Note: A virtual machine can have at most four virtual IDE disk drives. If a host system has four disk drives, then configuring all four disk drives in the virtual machine does not leave space for a virtual IDE CD-ROM drive. Even if the host computer has a SCSI CD-ROM, the drive still appears inside the virtual machine as an IDE device. If you have configured four IDE disks in a single virtual machine, you are warned at the end of the disk configuration panels that you do not have room for a CD-ROM drive. At that point, you can either continue to configure your virtual machine without a CD-ROM, or you can use the Back button to return to the previous screens and remove one or more of the configured hard drives. The Configuration Wizard always requires that the first IDE disk drive found be configured as virtual IDE drive P-M.
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