Physical optical drive

Connect a physical optical drive

--device-add cdrom --device <name> [--iface <ide | scsi | sata>] [--passthr <yes | no>]

[--position <n>] [--subtype <buslogic | lsi-spi | lsi-sas>]

Parameters

--device: the name of the host computer CD/DVD drive that will be connected to the virtual machine. To obtain the names of all CD/DVD drives installed on the host, use the prlsrvctl info command.

--iface: virtual CD/DVD drive interface type.

--passthr: enables the passthrough mode for the specified device.

--position: the SCSI / IDE / SATA device identifier to be used for the CD/DVD drive. Allowed ranges:

• 0-3 for IDE disk drives
• 0-6 for SCSI disk drives
• 0-5 for SATA disk drives

--subtype: virtual CD/DVD drive subtype.