CD Burning in Vmware?

[pepe65]

Does anyone know how I can burn CD's in vmware? My guest host is Win98...host is Mandrake 7.2...right now Win98 sees my CD-RW drive as a regular CD-Rom

[Choozo]

I really would urge you to check the FAQ at www.vmware.com (http://www.vmware.com) (since you haven't revealed how much you have checked before posting here?) :D

[pepe65]

Thanks...I checked out the VMware site as you suggested, they don't have a troubleshooting section for VMware express (whic i'm using and i forgot to mention) but i looked int he trouble shooting for the regular VMware and they said that it don't support CD-RW drives yet. I'm assuming the same is true for express....what a bummer...Thanks for your help! :)

[debiandude]

Why don't you just burn your cd's from inside linux??? Its really pretty easy if you kernel is already set up for it. And if not, its not a big deal either. In your kernel selection disable ATAPI/CDROM Support, enable SCSI support, generic scsi support, and scsi cdrom support. And then get your self a nice graphical program like xcdrom or gcombust.

[pepe65]

I would like to but VMware creates a virtual disk, which from what i've read so far cannot be accessed or is very hard to (if possible) in linux. I did however try win4lin, that seems to work much better so far.

[Paul Weaver]

Share the stuff in windows in vmware, and mount it in linux with samba, providing you have networking set up you are in buisness and can share away.