Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 11:37:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com> Cc: Igor Sysoev <is@rambler-co.ru>, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vnconfig/CDROM patch for VMWare Message-ID: <200209291837.g8TIbp7f022264@apollo.backplane.com> References: <20020927173019.71B96117@CRWdog.demon.co.uk>
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The patch looks good to me. It certainly isn't going to break
anything that's already in VN since all it does is add a couple
of new ioctls.
I would be happy to commit it but we are too close to the 4.7
release so it will have to go in after the release.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
: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.
:
: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.
:
:
: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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