No CD/DVD drive under leopard?!

Using parallels 3.0 for an age now and always worked great. Just upgraded to Leopard and it still works except I get an error about it being unable to access the default CDROM when I try to start a VM.

If I try to create a new VM and pick to add a CDROM device the only choice I have is to use an ISO image file. The option to use the CDROM device on the computer is grayed out.

System is an Intel Mac Pro.

I've uninstalled parallels and re-installed but no change.

Any thoughts? Anyone else seeing this?

-J

 

Am I really the only one to see this problem?

 

Hello lostboy,

Your CD drive is one of the Parallels-Leopard issues which our developers are fixing now. Please sorry for the inconvenience caused.

Best regards,
Xenos

 

Thanks Xenos. Are there any workarounds for now? I am using the beta now and this is still an issue...

 

Hello lostboy,

You're right, the issue is not fixed in the beta as the report of the bug was made just before the release. There is a new update to come and Parallels QA Team is aware of the problem you reported on. There is no workaround for the moment, unfortunately. Thank you for your patience.

Best regards,
Xenos

 

Fixed Yet?

I just got my new Macbook Pro w/Leopard, installed Parallel, used Transporter to create a VM of my PC on my MAC. Now, I cannot access the CDROM via the Windows VM, cannot access USB to sync my Palm or to access my external HD. Whoa! What's up with this?

 

I think the situation is following
When you initially installed Windows Xp, you installed it without Service Pack, later you upgraded Virtual Windows to server Pack 1,2,or 3
During migration Transporter is asking Cd and you provided old Cd,
You need to provide the same service pack level CD, as currently installed in Virtual Machine
You can slipstream CD as described in
http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/winxp-sp2-bootcd.html
Please note you need to perform operation sequentially.
First integrate SP1, then SP2, and so on
and create Boot CD, after that perform migration

Please also make sure you install Parallels Tools