How do i install an guest os (windows 7 and windows server 2008 r2 in particular) via physical cd rom and how do i use usb flash drives

[TammytheGreat]

How do i install an guest os (windows 7 and windows server 2008 r2 in particular) via physical cd rom and how do i use usb flash drives on them once they are set up???

[DavoudTeimouri]

Hi,

You can add USB controller to your machine and attach your USB storage to the server then add USB storage to your machine as USB Device.

About CD/ROM, you can change your machine settings on this regard:

Change CD-ROM setting to PassTrought IDE , put your disk on the drive and your machine will see the disk.

[TammytheGreat]

ok my cd rom is set to passthrough ide. i put my cd in the client computer which i used to access the web client but it says on the web client "not connected" and when i power on the vm it says there's no os.

see pics attachede

[TammytheGreat]

I have an iso of my operating system. i'm thinking i will use those instead of a physical disc. how do i install a guest os using an iso?? where do i put the iso so it can be accessed for installing?

[a_p_]

I usually copy the ISO image(s) to a folder on the host's datastore, and attach the ISO image to the VM.

André