From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Jul 10 15:29:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FCCD37B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 15:29:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta01bw.bigpond.com (mta01bw.bigpond.com [139.134.6.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 218FD43E42 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 15:29:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikal@stillhq.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([144.135.24.69]) by mta01bw.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 mta01bw May 23 2002 23:53:28) with SMTP id GZ215000.BB1; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:29:24 +1000 Received: from CPE-203-51-26-240.nsw.bigpond.net.au ([203.51.26.240]) by bwmam01.mailsvc.email.bigpond.com(MailRouter V3.0n 2/734736); 11 Jul 2002 08:29:23 Received: from localhost (mikal@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA26163; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:28:22 +1000 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:28:22 +1000 From: Michael Still X-Sender: To: Doug Ambrisko Cc: Igor Sysoev , Subject: Re: VMware2 and CDROM image In-Reply-To: <200207101653.g6AGrH801103@ambrisko.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > This sounds really cool. I've wanted to do this before and couldn't. The other option is to use fakecd (http://cvs.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/fakecd/), which uses a ld preload hack to intercept IOCTL calls to the "cd rom drive". Sorry, I don't know if the linux and FreeBSD cd rom ioctls are close enough for this to work out of the box. Cheers, Mikal -- Michael Still (mikal@stillhq.com) UMT+10hrs To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message