Throughout the VirtualBox 2.4.x releases I did extensive testing with Mac OSX as host OS and several flavours of Linux as the guest OS.

Basically, I found it was not possible to play a CD on my Linux guest host with Mac OSX as the host OS.

I posted on VirtualBox forum and while one Leopard user has since claimed success, the response I got from a seasoned VBer wasthat no, it was not possible to play CDs on a Linux guest with OSX as host OS. (And of course CD ripping is completely out of the question since not even the CD's tracks can be seen in File Manager or Rythymbox player).

I just downloaded and updated VBox 3.0.4 and in short, nothing's changed since I made this post -

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=16960&p=72128&hilit=whisperycat#p72128

Is this a rather underhanded way of putting people off Linux? This is terrible negative exposure for Linux, which is in many ways a far superior home OS than Windows. What user would evaluate any Linux distro, find it can't play or rip CDs, and thendecide to give it a try anyway? Is this Apple at work? Has anyone using WIndows as the host OS, been able to get CDs to play in a Linux guest?

I've un-installed VBox, I'll try again in a year ;-)