Unable to use the local physical CD/DVD drive connected to a Workstation server on a Windows Client

Products

• VMware Desktop Hypervisor

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• You cannot connect a CD-ROM device to a virtual machine while connected to a Workstation server on a Windows Client.
• When you power on the virtual machine, you see the error:
  
  Could not open the client device "D:". It is being used by another virtual machine or some other program.

Environment

VMware Workstation 10.x (Windows)
VMware Workstation 11.x (for Windows)
VMware Workstation 8.x (Windows)
VMware Workstation 9.x (Windows)

Cause

This issue occurs if the user account does not have sufficient administrative privileges.

Resolution

To resolve this issue, right-click the shortcut for VMware Workstation and click Run as Administrator to run the software with elevated rights.

Additional Information

Windows クライアント上の Workstation Server に接続しているローカル物理 CD/DVD ドライブを使用できない