Assistance with mounting two SATA optical drives to use with a Win 10 VM

[Aurora_Paradox]

I just started my journey with TrueNAS Core and it's been relatively smooth until now.

I've setup a Windows 10 VM with the intent to rip my dvd collection using MakeMKV. Windows doesn't seem to see the optical drives.

I ran the shell command "camcontrol devlist" and TrueNAS Core does see the optical drives.

From searching the forums I gather that I need to mount them but I'm not sure how to go about doing that. I come from a Windows background and the forums had conflicting information.

Is there a general guide somewhere on the best way to mount an optical for use with a VM?

I'd greatly appreciate any help.

Below is a general layout of my setup.

Motherboard: Asus Maximus IX Hero
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20GHz
RAM: 32 GB of Corsair DDR4
Drives: 5 4 TB HUS726040ALE614 and 3 4 TB WD Blacks running in Raidz3.
The drives are all connecting to an LSI 9211-8i with IT mode firmware.
Boot Drive: 1 TB Samsung nvme
Both optical drives are connecting to the motherboard SATA controller

 

[Samuel Tai]

Generally, it's not possible to pass through individual optical drives to a bhyve VM. The only way to pass through optical drives I'm aware of is to connect them to a PCI-E SATA controller, and then pass through the controller to the VM.