what does mount as virtual drive mean
The verb âmountingâ in this context means having the operating system in the guest virtual machine take control of some media (in this case a CD-ROM drive) and make it accessible as a file system. CD-ROM drives are usually mounted read-only. Attaching a file in the host operating system to the virtual CD device. Instructing the operating system running in the VM to mount the CD-ROM (which is really just the file mentioned in step 1) so that the files on it are visible to software running under the VMâs operating system.