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Not Able To Burn CDs or DVDs in Virtual Machines with Linux 2.4 Kernel Supported Guest Operating Systems (1003101)
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For burning CDs or DVDs from Red Hat EL3 virtual machines (or any guest operating system VMware supports that features a Linux 2.4 kernel):
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Boot the kernel with the hda=ide-scsi kernel option.
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Run cdrecord -scanbus .
The CD-ROM or DVD-ROM should be listed now and the media should burn successfully.
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