I'm trying to eliminate optical drives from my systems, and the only snag is some software needs to boot from optical to work properly (operating systems, WHS recovery cd). What I'd like is software ...

Virtualization is a widely used technology that allows users to run multiple operating systems, like Windows, Linux, etc., on a single physical machine. Virtual machines are the platforms or instances ...

The "Bootable" legacy ISO you've used is in fact not bootable, it relies on CDROM emulation provided by BIOS. VMs don't usually do this sort of emulation. If you set the guest OS to something like ...