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Date:      Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:04:25 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Igor Sysoev <is@rambler-co.ru>
To:        stable@freebsd.org, emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   VMware2 and CDROM image
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207101252210.66081-100000@is>

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Hi,

I have a patch that allow to use CD-ROM images in VMware2 via vn device:
http://sysoev.ru/freebsd/patch.vn_cd.txt

Patch was made and tested on FreeBSD 4.2 and 4.3.
I had used it to install Windows NT 4.0 from CD-ROM image in VMware2.
It can be used on FreeBSD 4.x only (because it's using vn device).

Russian description is available here:
http://sysoev.ru/freebsd/vmware_cd_image.html

In English, short:
After appling of patch you need rebuild vnconfig and kernel.
vnconfig will get new options - '-s cdrom':

vnconfig -s cdrom -c vn0c image.iso

After configuring vn device you can use it in VMware2 as /dev/vn0c
instead of physical CD-ROM device.


Igor Sysoev
http://sysoev.ru


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