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Burning a Windows iso to DVD on a Mac

After playing around in Windows 7 on a VM, I was ready to repave my spare top and give it a whirl. None of my Windows boxes have a DVD burner, but my MacBookPro does. Here is what I did:

(I use VMWare Fusion to run Windows on my MBP.)

On the MBP:

  1. Copy the iso to my shared folder for my virtual machines on my MBP.

On my Windows VM:

  1. Map a drive to my shared folder (I already had this… I use Y:\)
  2. Download the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools.
  3. Insert a blank DVD (On my VM the host DVD burner shows up as the D:\ drive)
  4. Open the command prompt.
  5. Type: 

dvdburn D: Y:\en_windows_7_beta_dvd_x86_x15-29073.iso

A few minutes later my finished DVD was ejected from the DVD drive.

Print | posted on Monday, January 12, 2009 12:43 PM

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# re: Burning a Windows iso to DVD on a Mac

Left by Chris Patterson at 1/12/2009 1:12 PM
Gravatar Next time, just open Disk Utility on your Mac, open the ISO, and burn it to a disk.

Disk Utility can be found in the Applications\Utilities folder and can burn both single and double layer ISOs.

# re: Burning a Windows iso to DVD on a Mac

Left by Joe at 1/13/2009 5:36 AM
Gravatar Better yet,

Running Windows 7, right-click on the ISO and choose "Burn to Disk".

:-)

(Assuming VMWare fusion exposes the MacBook Pro's drive as a burner)

# re: Burning a Windows iso to DVD on a Mac

Left by Kirstinj at 1/13/2009 10:04 AM
Gravatar Chris: I tried that and ended up with several coasters. (I tried them on 2 PCs, and neither could read the DVDs). I obviously missed some setting in there.

# re: Burning a Windows iso to DVD on a Mac

Left by Kirstinj at 1/13/2009 10:05 AM
Gravatar Joe: SWEET! I will have to try that!

# re: Burning a Windows iso to DVD on a Mac

Left by Charles at 1/13/2009 10:07 PM
Gravatar I was able to burn the Windows 7 disk with Leopard's Disk Utility too, and was able to do a full install from it.

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