When you share CD on Window to native AROS then it sees it as new virtual hardware. When you share CD from Windows to VMware running Linux then Linux will see it as virtual hardware, but such hardware is not passed to AROS linux-hosted. This is where this hostdisk.device is supposed to make "host" hardware (so virtual hardware on VMware in this case) available to AROS linux-hosted.

deadwood, a curiosity, I also tried sharing a CD from Windows on AROS One, mounting SMB2 on WMware the 2 shares appeared, both the CD and the shared folder

I did the same thing on WMWare Hosted Linux, but in this case only the Shared appeared.

If I only share the CD it gives me "device not recognised" error

Yup, that's a simple solution that makes sense

....y'know what I think I'll just copy my Amiga Forever ISO and use DiskImageGUI. That honestly sounds far more convenient than the alternatives.

Sorry for wasting everyone's time. I'd just rather spend 10 minutes doing a couple steps than an hour doing something I would've assumed to have already been done.

I mean no ill will -- I just want to take the path of least resistance with my computers..

If I'm not mistaken, the link mentions Hardisk mounting, not CD/DVD (physical) mounting.

I tried creating this Mountlist and it doesn't seem to work (maybe on Native Linux it works and on VMware it doesn't)

FileSystem = cdrom-handler
Device = hostdisk.device
Unit = /dev/sr0
BlockSize = 2048
Surfaces = 1
BlocksPerTrack = 0
LowCyl = 0
HighCyl = 0
Reserved = 0
Activate = 1

There is a driver called hostdisk.device that allows such passthrough. Here is it's documentation:

[url]https://github.com/deadwood2/AROS/blob/master/arch/all-hosted/devs/hostdisk/hostdisk.txt[/url]

@AMIGASYSTEM

Oh whoops, I think i might have misspoken!

I'm not talking about using disk images -- I'm talking about actual CD drives, and getting AROS to recognize them while hosted on Linux. The ISO stuff is not what I'm looking for, and if it came across like any VM or ISO stuff was relevant, it wasn't and I do apologize for that.

Hope this clears any confusion!

To mount an ISO on AROS you have to use "DiskImageGUI", this program also exists on Amiga, on AROS it works the same way ! on Icaros I don't know where DiskImageGUI is located.

Haldo! Long time listener, first time caller, amateur Amiga user.

Managed to get Icaros set up in a hosted Debian bookworm VM, and right now I'm trying to figure out how to access the virtual CD drive from inside Icaros, for the sake of Amiga Forever integration. Probably something I'm missing, either an undocumented command, or just a feature that isn't available. (....yet?)

Either way, I could use the help. Thanks in advance!