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A fresh install of VMWare Workstation 7 (7.1.1 build 282343) on Windows 7 64 bit.

When I try to read a CD/DVD from a guest (either to install a fresh guest or to read a CD within an existing VM I get the following error: Cannot connect virtual device ide1:0 because no corresponding device is available on the host.

I've tried fiddling with the IDE channels as well as tried SCSI with no joy. What am I missing?

I can run ISOs fine but I don't want to have to convert everything to an ISO when I presume that this should just work fine.

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Turned out to be a fairly simple fix... I opened up the host and connected the DVD drive in to a different SATA socket and VMWare saw it as soon as I started it up again. A bit strange as I didn't think SATA sockets had anything like the primary/secondary concept like IDE but at least it's resolved the problem.

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You can accept your own answers. – SgtOJ Sep 12 '11 at 23:17
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