dvd decrypter and vmware

[eagle35]

Hi all.

I have a windows VM running on a Linux box and im trying to get dvd decrypter to work. It installs fine and runs fine its just that it cant find any dvd drives when running.

The computer can see the dvd drive and the dvd that's in the drive but decrypter cant.

Any ideas??

[[DSL]Sensenman]

Hi,

have you configured that your windows VM uses the hosts physical drive? I'm using the VMware 2.01, here's a screenshot from my WMware Infrastructure Web Access with Ubuntu using the hosts physical DVD drive:
http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=vmware_dvdrqe1.jpg

If you're clicking on the arrow on the right side of the DVD/CD icon you get this dialog where you can choose which device/file to use for this VMwares CD/DVD drive:
http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=vmware_dvd2sqxr.jpg

Perhaps I could help you :)

[eagle35]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v393/springs/vmware-dvd.jpg

this is what ive got for the cdrom settings. I'm using server version 1.09

[[DSL]Sensenman]

Hi again,

perhaps you selected the wrong device type, my VMware states that the Drive is a CD/DVD drive, your screenshot shows it only as a CD drive.

Does your client system (windows) see a CD you've inserted or are both CD and DVD not recognized by the client system?

Greetings,

Sensenman

[eagle35]

the XP vm can see the dvd thats inserted and will try to play through windows media player but decrypter wont see any drives at all

[[DSL]Sensenman]

Sorry, then my whole assumption was wrong...doesn't seem to be a VMware-related problem if the DVD is recognized correctly.

Anyways, good luck with finding a solution ;)

[eagle35]

ive got a picture of what i mean:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v393/springs/decrypter.jpg

as you can see XP can see the dvd fine. But decrypter wont see anything.

[[DSL]Sensenman]

Hi,

try deselecting "legacy emulation" in your virtual machine settings. If you use legacy mode, some advanced functions like extracting audio/video or burning are not available if I recall correctly.

Greetings

[eagle35]

I turned off legacy emulation and it solved the problem..

now i have a problem that when a dvd is being decrypted via the VM the whole computer crashes.

[[DSL]Sensenman]

then that's no solution either :)

what about upgrading to a newer version of VMware server? The image you created should be able to run with a newer version of vmware, and since its a free program it should be worth giving it a try.

[Gusar]

The question I have is: Why are you trying to run DVD Decrypter in a VM? It works perfectly in Wine, just set it to identify to DVDDecrypter.exe as Windows NT4.