Booting from a Virtual CD
Boot a virtual machine from a virtual CD (VCD) to install a guest operating system or to perform maintenance.
Before booting from a VCD, you must shut down the virtual machine.
To boot a virtual machine from a VCD
- If necessary, create a VCD from a bootable CD/DVD (see Creating a Virtual CD).
- On the Virtual Machines page, select a virtual machine.
- If the virtual machine is running, click Shutdown.
- When the virtual machine status shows stopped, click Boot from CD in the lower pane.
- Select the bootable VCD, then click Boot.
Note: A Windows-based virtual machine booted from a VCD boots as a hardware virtual machine (HVM), and it can access only the first three disk volumes.