VMWare Player is a free software available from VMWare Inc. enabling the creation of guest OS within an existing OS Notes for a beginner ... * VMWare Player and VMWare Server are available for free * A .vmdk file is the virtual hard drive for the guest OS * A .nvram file stores the BIOS settings of the virtual machine * A .vmx file stores the configuration settings for the virtual machine. All you need is a text editor to edit the VMWare configuration settings. * A .vmsd file stores information about VMWare snapshots. (more…)

First list down the CD/DVD devices connected to your machine and find the device name. Some of the tools that comes handy in an Ubuntu machine are 'wodim', 'genisoimage' Wodim stands for Write Data to Optical Disk Media. If you don't have the software installed in your Ubuntu release do an apt-get $ apt-get install wodim To know more about wodim and its parameter definition try man on wodim To list the CD/DVD devices on the machine, issue $ wodim --devices wodim: Overview of accessible drives (2 found) : ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 dev='/dev/scd0' rwrw-- : 'HL-DT-ST' 'CD-RW GCE-8481B' 1 dev='/dev/scd1' rwrw-- : 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVD-ROM GDR8161B' Our read-write CD device is in /dev/scd0. So our command for burning the .iso image $ wodim dev=/dev/scd0 driveropts=burnfree -v -data ubuntu8desktop.iso To burn audio files $ wodim dev=/dev/scd0 driveropts=burnfree -v -audio one.wav two.wav three.wav Further read i) ubuntu guide http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty/CDDVDBurning ii) ubuntu site https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CdDvd/Burning