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  • What OS are you running in vb, or is this a boot disk?
    – Paul
    Commented Oct 6, 2011 at 23:04
  • There is no OS at the moment. It´s a Win7 DVD-image, so I want to install Win7.
    – Van Coding
    Commented Oct 7, 2011 at 6:23
  • When you do mount -o loop it creates a loopback device that represents the ISO, and then mounts the loopback. Given that you can mount the iso in linux, I guess vb is using a different method. Try mounting in linux, then do losetup -a to find out which /dev/loop it created (/dev/loop0 for example). Then when adding the cdrom device to your vm, use the /dev/loop device instead of the iso directly.
    – Paul
    Commented Oct 7, 2011 at 7:03
  • @Paul Thanks for this tip, but this does not seem to work. "The medium '/dev/loop0' can't be used as the requested device type". I've also tested it with a normal ISO, but it didn't work. Do you have another idea?
    – Van Coding
    Commented Oct 8, 2011 at 18:00
  • What was the requested device type? It should be added as a physical device.
    – Paul
    Commented Oct 9, 2011 at 3:03