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As a follow-up on my question VMware Workstation 8: how to fake a bootable USB stick?

How can I mount a Windows folder as a virtual CD/DVD drive?

That way, I could mount the folder as a virtual CD/DVD drive on my host system, then use that CD/DVD drive in my guest VM to boot from.

Note: I know about SUBST, but that mounts the folder as a regular drive, not as a CD/DVD image.

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    If no better solutions are found: Create an iso image and mount that either directly in VMware or eg. DaemonTools.
    – Jens Erat
    Nov 4, 2011 at 11:27
  • I don't think you can. Anyway you cannot boot from a folder since you cannot mark it as bootable.
    – m0skit0
    Nov 4, 2011 at 12:00
  • @Jens I thought about that; do you know if it is possible to make an ISO "redirect" that in fact points to files in stead of a binary image?
    – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers
    Nov 4, 2011 at 13:07
  • I don't think so, what should happen to the iso file if you delete/add files? You would have to do some hacks with shadow copies or such to have a stable image... Maybe you can mount an iso file to a folder (eg. Daemon Tools paid versions) and use it in VMware, too, but I don't guess both at the same time.
    – Jens Erat
    Nov 4, 2011 at 14:24
  • @Jens good point. I'll need to think this over.
    – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers
    Nov 4, 2011 at 16:58

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I don't think you can do so. A folder is a logical entity, not a physical one. You cannot boot from a folder since you cannot mark it as bootable and it has no boot sector.

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