Virtual machines support certain IDE drives and features.

  • Up to four devices, including disk, CD-ROM, and DVD drives, are supported.
  • DVD drives can be used to read data DVD discs only.
  • DVD video is not supported.
  • Hard disks can be virtual disks or physical disks.
  • IDE virtual disks can be up to 8TB.
  • CD-ROM drives can be physical devices or ISO image files.