Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 13:11:26 +0400 (MSD) From: Igor Sysoev <is@rambler-co.ru> To: Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vnconfig/CDROM patch for VMWare Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209281309530.45906-100000@is> In-Reply-To: <20020927173019.71B96117@CRWdog.demon.co.uk>
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On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Andy Sparrow wrote:
> Hi Igor,
>
> Thought that you might like to know that this patch works perfectly for
> me on 4.6-STABLE thru 4.7-RC2, and is *extremely* useful for mounting
> CDROM images in VMWare[0].
>
> Are there any plans to commit this? I think it'd be great to have this
> as standard.
I'm not commiter but I think it's ready to commit expect small
man patch about 'cdrom' flag:
----
cdrom allow VN to emulate some CD-ROM ioctls enough
to use file CD image as CD-ROM under VMware.
----
> Regards,
>
> AS
>
>
> [0] e.g. for software that insists you have the CD present to run it,
> but you don't want to flatten the batteries spinning a CD-ROM on an
> airplane.
It also usefull to test bootable CD image.
> is@rambler-co.ru said:
> > 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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