Mount a Physical DVD drive to transfer media to Jellyfin

[ChevyEnthusiast]

Hello. I am currently setting up a small proxmox server, which will contain a jellyfin server.

The PC I am using has a physical DVD RW drive. My plan is to se a windows 10 VM, rip the data off the DVDs, put the media files on a seprate disk, and use that disk in jellyfin.

Currently, I have set up the windows 10 and Jellyfin VM in the system. both run fine. now i ran into some issues. the main one being the physical DVD drive is not detected by windows.

How do you allow Windows VM to see this DVD drive? After i have the media files, how do I transfer the media to a separate disk, (Not in VM, but on local machine)?

Please understand I am new to proxmox, and linux in general, and really don't have a full understanding of this yet. Thanks for the help.

 

[Kingneutron]

When I'm ripping dvd/blu-ray media, I generally use a physical PC or Mac, only sometimes a Win10 VM running in Virtualbox if it won't rip properly with e.g. makemkv. Years ago I used to use Vmware workstation. Desktop hypervisors can usually raw-passthrough a SATA dvd drive to where the software can properly read the disc.

Proxmox may not be the "best way" to accomplish what you want unless you can passthru a USB dvd burner, or setup a GUI at the host level and rip it there.

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Developer_Workstations_with_Proxmox_VE_and_X11

 

[leesteken]

The simple 'Use physical CD/DVD Drive' option for the virtual CD/DVD Drive only supports data discs with files on it. If you want to rip audio or read DVD/Bluray movies (or burn discs) then the VM needs low-level access to the drive. It might be possible with iSCSI (I never got that really working) or PCI(e) passthrough of the whole SATA controller that the optical drive is connected (I use a M.2 to single SATA port converter) to or use a USB-to-SATA controller and use USB passthrough (or PCI(e) passthrough of the whole USB controller, which I have used in the past). There are several old threads about this on this forum.