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Optical Discs
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Passthrough reading and recording (a.k.a., "burning") are not supported by Xen.
Currently, the only options for reading and recording optical discs (e.g., CDs, DVDs, BRDs) in Qubes are:

 1. Use a USB optical drive.
 2. Attach a SATA optical drive to a secondary SATA controller, then assign this secondary SATA controller to a VM.
 3. Use a SATA optical drive attached to dom0.
    (**Caution:** This option is [potentially dangerous](/doc/security-guidelines/#dom0-precautions).)