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lang: en
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layout: doc
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permalink: /doc/how-to-use-optical-discs/
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redirect_from:
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- /doc/optical-discs/
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- /doc/recording-optical-discs/
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- /en/doc/recording-optical-discs/
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ref: 204
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title: How to use optical discs
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Passthrough reading and recording (a.k.a., "burning") are not supported by Qubes OS. This is not a limitation of Xen, which provides scsiback and scsifront drivers, but of Qubes OS. It will be fixed in the future.
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Currently, the only options for reading and recording optical discs (e.g., CDs, DVDs, BRDs) in Qubes are:
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1. Use a USB optical drive.
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2. Attach a SATA optical drive to a secondary SATA controller, then assign this secondary SATA controller to a VM.
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3. Use a SATA optical drive attached to dom0.
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(**Caution:** This option is [potentially dangerous](https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/19075#dom0-precautions).)
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To access an optical disc via USB follow the [typical procedure for attaching a USB device](/doc/how-to-use-usb-devices/#with-the-command-line-tool), then check with the **Qubes Devices** widget to see what device in the target qube the USB optical drive was attached to.
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Typically this would be `sr0`.
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For example, if `sys-usb` has device `3-2` attached to the `work` qube's `sr0`, you would mount it with `mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/removable`.
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You could also write to a disc with `wodim -v dev=/dev/sr0 -eject /home/user/Qubes.iso`.
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