how to share my DVD drive with my Azure Virtual Machine?

Question

_{Tuesday, May 5, 2015 11:37 PM}

I am remote desktop connected to my virtual machine. How do I install software from the DVD drive of my PC onto the virtual machine?

thanks,

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_{Wednesday, May 6, 2015 3:03 AM ✅Answered}

Hi Steve;

On your local computer where the CD Drive resides insert the disc and convert the CD content into an ISO first  and then upload the ISO from the Local Machine to the Azure DVD drive.

Regards;

Prasant

_{Monday, September 7, 2015 4:31 PM ✅Answered}

Hello;

Its been a while since I answered the original post however I found a much simpler way to share my DVD drive with my Azure Virtual Machine. You can also use the same approach to pull files from your cloud VM locally. I have personally tried this on my lab and it works. Here is how it’s done.

First, logon to Microsoft Azure and browse to your Virtual Machine from the portal. From there, select your Virtual Machine and click on the Connect button at the bottom (make sure you select your VM first by clicking on the status field for example so that the VM clearly shows with a darker blue background).

After clicking on Connect, you will be prompted to Open or Save the RDP file for the remote session to your VM. Click on Save, and click on Open folder once the save operation is complete.  This will open the directory where the RDP file was saved and automatically select the file for you.

Right-click on your RDP file, and choose Edit from the dropdown menu. You will see the Remote Desktop Connection configuration window. Click on the Local Resources tab, and in the Local devices and resources section, click on the More… button. Expand the Drives and click on the local drives you want to share from within your Virtual Machine (I selected my DVD drive G), then click OK.

Finally, click on the Connect button to logon to your Virtual Machine. Once logged on, you will see your local drive available from within Explorer as a mapped drives as shown below. You can now copy and move files from your Virtual Machines in and out of your Workstation easily. Because you can change any RDP file in the same way, you can do the same with virtual machines hosted on other cloud platforms or from your own network.

Kindest Regards:)

_{Sunday, September 6, 2015 2:03 PM}

Great question and great answer.

How can we upload the ISO from the Local Machine to the Azure DVD drive?

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