This guide will teach you two ways to insert an ISO file into a VirtualBox virtual machine on Windows 10 (or 11). If you use VirtualBox, you can connect ISO files in at least two ways through the VirtualBox Manager or from the virtual machine interface when the guest operating system is running. Also, since no physical discs are involved, it has become the most common medium to ship software and other information over the internet. If I can get this to work, I will buy a copy of Parallels desktop.On VirtualBox, if you create a virtual machine or install an application on the guest machine, you will probably need to mount an ISO file to access the setup files.Īn ISO file is a container (also called a “disk image”) containing an exact copy of all the contents available on a physical disc. The files that I want to copy are a Clipper application executable, and its associated dbf and ntx files. I can change to drive 'R', but when I execute the DIR command, I receive this error:ĬDR103: CROM not High Sierra or ISO-9660 format reading drive R

The VM boot messages tell me that the CD-ROM virtual drive is letter 'R'. I also tried connecting the VM CD-ROM virtual drive to a disk image of the folder that contains the files that I wish to copy to the virtual hard drive.

When I double click on the renamed file, I receive this error message: THE FOLLOWING DISK IMAGES COULDN'T BE OPENED. I read several threads about renaming the *.hdd file to a *.dmg file, and then using Finder to copy the files to it.

I'm stuck, however, on getting files from the MAC environment into this virtual machine. I found threads telling me how to set up the environment, create a virtual hard disk, format it to be bootable. I'm using a trial version of Parallels desktop 6 for MAC. I've followed instructions from two different helpful threads to set up a Virtual Machine that has an MS-DOS 6.22 environment.

Transfer files into virtualbox