CD Rom and USB on virtual machine

Hi all
how to access CD ROM and USB device on virtual machines ..which are physically connected on oracle vm server.

on a separate host or even the OVS host you could dd the device into a separate image file, scp it to the guest then mount it as a loop back
e.g Host:
umount /cdrom (but don't eject it) - prevents i/o from hitting the cd while copying it
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=some-cdrom.img
scp some-cdrom.img user@guest:/some_dir
on the guest
mkdir /something
mount -o loop,ro /some_dir/some-cdrom.iso /mnt/disk
hope this helps

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