{"id":556,"date":"2012-07-20T23:27:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T23:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=556"},"modified":"2012-07-23T20:29:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T20:29:22","slug":"vmware-could-not-open-the-client-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"VMWare: could not open the client device (CD-ROM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to connect my virtual to my local computer&#8217;s CD ROM but I keep seeing the error: <\/p>\n<h1> Could not open the client device &#8220;D:&#8221; It is being used by another virtual machine or some other program<\/h1>\n<p>Even though I know it&#8217;s not in use!  <a href=\"http:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/message\/1901010#1901010\">Here is a solution<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right-click the VM -> Edit Settings -> CD\/DVD Drive 1 -> Emulate IDE<\/p>\n<p>Problem solved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to connect my virtual to my local computer&#8217;s CD ROM but I keep seeing the error: Could not open the client device &#8220;D:&#8221; It is being used by another virtual machine or some other program Even though I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=556\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}