Jim Mattson wrote: CLearly, I have no idea what I'm talking about. Please ignore me.
Since you're a VMware employee I'm going to ask this because I'm not sure whether or not you were joking with that last comment... So are you saying that when you originally said "Your physical optical drive is not directly accessible by the guest operating system." that you were mistaken? I'll assume so since Windows can actually see it the same as the Host does although because it's in a Virtual Machine does this present any limits to what functionality is available in the Virtual Machine vs its native functionality?