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While trying to burn an iTunes playlist to a CD today I was greeted with a very confusing error message.
"Disk burner is busy"
Huh, what are you talking about?
So I did the obvious. First I checked the mounted volumes list to see if I'd left something mounted (I tend to forget and leave DVDs in my laptop). No issues there. Then I tried the Eject Menu Extra (since I don't use an Apple keyboard and I like using F12 for other things) but the eject menu items was disabled. Disk Utility was no help either.
A quick search finally provided enough of a clue to figure out what was going on. This closed Apple support thread has the magic words (or word): Parallels.
Parallels was running in the background with a Ubuntu image I use for development purposes. Shutting down the VM and quitting Parallels restored my ability to operate the drive via the eject menu. So I started up Parallels again, changed the configuration to disable the CD-ROM and started up the VM.
I tried poking around the Parallels forums and then reading the manual but couldn't find anything that discussed taking over the CD operation from Mac OS, but that's certainly what's going on. It's a pretty nasty side effect.
