

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.
