VMware Workstation 5.0Features | Documentation | Knowledge Base | Discussion ForumsAdding Drives to a Virtual MachineVMware Workstation virtual machines can use up to four IDE devices and up to seven SCSI devices. Any of these devices can be a virtual hard disk or DVD or CD-ROM drive. A virtual machine can read data from a DVD disc. VMware Workstation does not support playing DVD movies in a virtual machine. Many other SCSI devices can be connected to a virtual machine using the host operating system's generic SCSI driver. For details on connecting these devices, see Connecting to a Generic SCSI Device. This section discusses the following topics: |