Hi All,

I setup my Win10 VM for the purpose of using 2 internal Optical Drives I have installed in my tower case.  I thought after installing all the missing drivers from the virtio-win-0.1.1 CD drive my 2 internal Optical Drives will appear in my "This PC" window under the "Devices and Drives" section.

 

Nevertheless, as the JPG below shows my 2 internal Optical Drives are missing. I have checked the "DVD/CD-ROM drives" node on my Device Manager tree and those drivers shown below circled in RED do not look like they belong to my 2 ASUS BW-16D1HT 16x BLU-RAY Optical Drives.

 

I will greatly appreciate it if anybody in the community can clarify for me why my 2 optical drives seem to be invisible to my Win10 VM?  Is the correct approach to fix this problem require I import genuine ASUS Optical Drive drivers into my Win10 VM and install them since they seem to be missing from the virtio-win-0.1.1 CD drive?   Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

 

 

 

Edited March 9, 20215 yr by slipstream

Hi All,

I have a followup I hope someone in the community can address.

 

I reviewed the SpaceInvader One YouTube video in the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miYUGWq6l24

 

In his YouTube video he does not provide any help associated to configuring an optical drive. so a Windows10 VM recognizes it.  Therefore, my question is as follows.  Is it possible for my UnRaid Windows10 VM to support my optical drive?  If yes, how is it configured so my Windows10 VM has the capabiliity to read the data from a DVD disk and write it to my MOVIE share? Any help will be greatly appreciated.   Thank you for your time.

Those two devices will be the install iso and the virt driver cd you added into the template.

 

You will need to passthru the device to use in windows but not sure if it is possible.

 

Rom drives are normally called /dev/sr0 etc you can do if usb attached.

It may be easier to add a cheap 2 port pcie sata controller and pass through the whole controller if the motherboard supports it.

SimonF and Jonathanm,

Thank you for your postings.  In my opinion the UnRaid OS developers need to seriously work on making Win10 VM Optical Drive support a lot easier process to implement.  I say this because I found the link below which covers at least 5 different approches to test out:

 

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/62070-pass-through-a-host-dvd-drive/

 

So from what I gather there is no official solution to support Optical Drives within an UnRaid Win10 VM.  And this just leaves me scratching my head. Something as critical as Win10 VM Optical Drive support should work straight out of the box without needing to waste a lot of time experimenting what works and what does not work. My hope was the Unassigned Devices plugin was going to work without a problem but this also turned out to be a big waste of time. 

 

For right now I am going to try something Germanus4711 I  says he had some success with after inserting the code below into the <disk> section:

 

<disk type='block' device='cdrom'>
  <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
  <source dev='/dev/sr0'/>
  <target dev='hdg' bus='sata'/>
  <readonly/>
</disk>

 

Given that lsscsi reveals:

[4:0:0:0]    cd/dvd  TSSTcorp DVDWBD SH-B123L  SB04  /dev/sr0 

 

If this doesn't work I am going to try what Jonathanm suggests which is to buy a PCI SATA conroller card.

 

In closing I have the following message to SpaceInvader One.  Please update your 3 part Windows VM YouTube series so it includes information on how to configure an UnRaid Win10 VM  so it supports Optical Drives.  Thank you

 

 

 

I understand your use case, and why optical drives are so important to you, but overall the need for optical drives is going away. Laptops have to be special ordered with DVD drives, most models don't come with them any more, and desktop machines while they still typically include DVD's, 99% of people never even open the drive during the life of the machine. It's a dying medium. Everything that was accomplished with DVD's can be accomplished better, faster, and cheaper with flash media or downloads.

 

Optical drives are a niche market, like phonograph records.