By the way, if you DO have the CD-rom properly configured in VirtualBox, but it won't boot from your CD, there are a few possibilities:

- The pirated CD you've got might be crap, and wasn't made to be bootable. Bootable CDs have to be made in a special way to be bootable. If the pirates didn't do that step when they pirated the CD, then that's your problem.

- The BIOS of the virtual machine in VirtualBox might not be configured to auto-boot from the CD-ROM drive. You may have to configure that bit just like you would on a real computer. The usual thing, you know? Remember setting the BIOS back in the old days? Where you have to press a certain special key (like DEL or F12 or F2 or somesuch) as the virtual machine boots, then you get into the BIOS and configure which drives can be booted and in what order. Remember?

- You may simply have missed the "Press any key to boot from CD" message that appeared on the screen of the virtual machine when the CD gets read at bootup. It doesn't stay up for long, and if you miss it, it moves on and tries to boot from the hard disk.