From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 12 9:20:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53E1837B401; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 09:20:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mile.nevermind.kiev.ua (office.netstyle.com.ua [213.186.199.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D788443E81; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 09:20:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from never@mile.nevermind.kiev.ua) Received: from mile.nevermind.kiev.ua (never@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mile.nevermind.kiev.ua (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6CGK68R080246; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:20:06 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from never@mile.nevermind.kiev.ua) Received: (from never@localhost) by mile.nevermind.kiev.ua (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g6CGK4Rr080245; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:20:04 +0300 (EEST) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:20:04 +0300 From: Alexandr Kovalenko To: Igor Sysoev Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware2 and CDROM image Message-ID: <20020712162004.GN45527@nevermind.kiev.ua> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Igor Sysoev! On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 01:04:25PM +0400, you wrote: > 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. Hm, thank you, will test it this weekend. -- NEVE-RIPE Ukrainian FreeBSD User Group http://uafug.org.ua/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message