I'm trying to install a guest OS by booting to the hosts CD/DVD drive. In the vm's settings I have given it a CD/DVD Drive of Client type and set it to Emulate IDE (I read somewhere that you need to do this for SATA drives), started the vm, entered the BIOS and set the CD/DVD to be tge first boot device, connected the CD/DVD but it doesn't find it.
Interestingly, if I try to set the CD/DVD as a Host type (as opposed to Client) then it says there are no devices detected. Is ESX not detecting the SATA drive, or am I missing something?
Thanks for the help.
