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Is There any Free Virtual CD/ DVD Software Avilable for Linux or Windows ( like HP VMEDIA)

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I use Daemon Tools Lite for Windows.

With DAEMON Tools you can back up your physical CD/DVD/HD DVD/Blu-ray discs into "virtual discs" or so called "disc image" files, which run directly on your hard drive. You can also work with images created by other burning programs! DAEMON Tools supports variety of image types. Use CD/DVD image converter to have one format images in your Image Catalog!

  1. Emulate virtual CD/DVD-ROM/HD DVD and Blu-ray drives

DAEMON Tools Lite [Commercial] enables you to emulate up to 4 CD/DVD virtual drives on your PC. Virtual drives will appear in your OS just like real ones. Select a virtual drive then choose a disc image you want to mount. Find the created virtual drive with mounted disc image in My Computer. Start working! Looks like working with a real drive and a real disc, doesn't it? Yes, but it is much faster!

  1. Create a disc image

With DAEMON Tools Lite [Commercial] you can create ISO and MDS image files from original discs inserted in physical CD/DVD/HD DVD/Blu-ray drives. Or use images you have created earlier with other program. DAEMON Tools products work with variety of image types.

Key features

  • creates *.iso and *.mds images;
  • emulates up to 4 virtual CD/DVD drives;
  • performs image mounting and unmounting;
  • supports *.b5t, *.b6t, *.bwt, *.ccd, *.cdi, *.cue, *.nrg, *.pdi, *.isz;
  • offers powerful command line interface.
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Virtual Clone Drive for windows is completely free.

Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD/DVD drive, however it exists only virtually. Image files generated with CloneDVD or CloneCD can be mounted onto a virtual drive from your hard-disk or from a network drive and used in the same manner as inserting them into a normal CD/DVD drive.

Features

  • Supports all common image formats such as ISO, BIN, CCD
  • Supports up to 8 virtual drives at the same time
  • Easy to use - just double-click an image file to mount as a drive
  • Virtual CloneDrive is freeware, you may use it at no cost.

System Requirements

  • An IBM-compatible personal computer with a minimum 500 MHz Pentium-class microprocessor (1 GHz recommended) and 128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended)
  • Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 (32 or 64 bit)
  • If you use Windows 2000 or Windows XP you must be an administrator to install Virtual CloneDrive
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Mounting an .iso as a 'virtual cd' can be done with the standard mount command in linux.

In windows I use MagicDisc.

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You took the words right out of my mouth! Good answer! – Axxmasterr Jul 28 '09 at 15:15
if this is so you can use a copy protected commercial software through wine, many copy protection schemes will refuse to load if they detect a cd virtualization technology. – Kenneth Cochran Jul 28 '09 at 21:16
MagicDisc doesn't seem to be free for large files e.g. ISO files. – Jonas Mar 5 '11 at 16:15
@Jonas: Have you tried it? I cant' test it right now, but I'm quite sure it works. – fretje Mar 5 '11 at 16:54
@fretje: Yes, I tried it a few minutes ago, but I had to pay for it if the file was bigger than a few hundreds of megabytes. Deamon Tools Lite was much better, I'm using it right now. – Jonas Mar 5 '11 at 16:56
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KIso?

KIso is a graphical user interface for KDE 3.x which has the purpose to make it as easy as possible to:

  • Open ISO and NRG images.
  • Create an ISO image from CD.
  • Easy and convenient creation of own ISO images.
  • Convert NRG to ISO images.
  • Convert BIN/CUE to ISO images.
  • Convert MDF to ISO images.
  • Convert CDI to ISO images.
  • Convert CCD/IMG to ISO images.
  • Convert C2D to ISO images.
  • Mount ISO/NRG images as virtual drive.
  • Extract the content of an ISO/NRG image.
  • Create bootable images.
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There's a graphical utility called gmountiso which is available in the Ubuntu repositories. I'm not sure what distro you're using though.

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Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel. A simple installation-free Microsoft tool for mounting ISO files (XP and 2003 only).

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