A note about disabling the CD/DVD-ROM connection

Hello,

I hardly ever use the CD/DVD drive in Parallels, and I use it on the Mac side all the time, so I found it annoying that when I put in a CD it would open up in Parallels and not be visible to the Mac (until I disconnected it in Parallels).

So I edited my virtual machine and under CD/DVD-ROM options, unchecked the "Enabled" box. That solved the problem, but it created a new one: Parallels would freeze while resuming a suspended virtual machine.

So eventually I tried checking the "Enable" box but unchecking the "connect at startup" box. Problem solved! Now the default is for the Mac to be able to see the drive, but if I should ever need to use it in Parallels, I just click on Devices / CD/DVD-ROM 1 / Connect.

Just thought I would share.

Ben

 

Could you please provide an information on what build of Parallels Desktop you are running? I think that the hang on suspend/resume should be checked and fixed if it's reproducible.

 

The build is 4560.

 

OK, I'll notify our QA team to check this issue.

 

Hello again. It started to hang while resuming again. I went back to the original configuration (enabled the CD-ROM drive _and_ connect on startup), and that seemed to help.

 

Same issue here

I would suggest a feature be added to parallels, at least asking how we want the CD-ROM drive used when activated, like when you connect a USB device. Not a horrible problem but a pain.

 

I've already filed this feature request to our developers, it should be implemented with the future updates.

 

Thank you very much for this tip, which I haven't seen in other threads on this subject. It works fine for me in 2.5.3214.

David

 

Yes, the hang seems to be fixed in the latest build.

 

Latest Build did not fix - but easily fixable

A couple of threads have mentioned a freeze when resuming. Other have mentioned it is only very slow at resuming from a suspended state. I had this problem before and after the last update. It turns out it was never a freeze, only very slow - 10 minutes or more to resume. The suggestion to ENABLE CD/DVD drive but uncheck AT STARTUP has fixed this problem for me.