My mac do not read mu cd's

Hi all, I have a macbook pro, I'm trying to install vmf usion on my mac but it does not read my cd, it lloks like an empty cd but it is not empty, I cannot see the content of the cd Could you help please

Ah, I see, I think.
Your're trying to install Wundows under VMWare Fusion, & it's not reading the CD!?
I'm not certain, but it sounds like a setting in VMWare to do with sharing Discs/Disks, sometimes if OSX grabs the CD first, VMs can't read it.
Not on my IntelMac right now & generally don't have Internet available for it, but will try to check specifics later tonight.

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