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Virtual Machine and Blu Ray disks

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chimuelo

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I have Microsoft Virtual Server on a Vista host. I have a blu ray disk drive (LG GGC-H20L), and it works fine with Vista.

I have several guest OS running.... Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows XP, etc... anyway, when I put in a blu ray disk in my Vista host, NONE of the guest OS can recognize the blu ray disk. On the other hand, all of the guest OS can recognize dvd files.

Is there a way for me to fix this? How can I read blu ray disks from guest OS? Does anyone know if Virtual Box or VMWare has the same limitation?
 
It might have something to do with the content protection. Do you have the means to try with a decrypted BD mount?
 
It's more likely due to the fact that BDROM support is yet to placed into a Hypervisor product. As to this date, I know that ESXi and XenServer 5 don't have support for it, so I don't see it being implemented in an older Microsoft Hypervisor. You could give Hyper-V a try, but I have found nothing that says it has BDROM support.
 
does device manager in the VM show the optical drive as DVD ROM? or BluRay ?
 
Thanks for all the replies.

I have not tried any decrypted BD mount.

In the device manager, the optical drive shows as DVD ROM. It would be nice to be able to change it to BD ROM or something.
 
if the VM is showing a DVD drive as it's "optical" drive, then it will be limited to reading DVD formatted/sized discs or ISOs. I would do as the others have suggested, and convert it to a decrypted ISO image, and mount it that way.
 
I use Virtualbox because it has Optical Disk passthrough.
 
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