From owner-freebsd-emulation Sat Sep 28 17: 8:59 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 745B837B401; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 17:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from CRWdog.demon.co.uk (slip-32-100-16-6.wa.us.prserv.net [32.100.16.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4069E43E75; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 17:08:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spadger@best.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by CRWdog.demon.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71B96117; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:30:19 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Igor Sysoev , emulation@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: vnconfig/CDROM patch for VMWare Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_178752788P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:30:19 -0700 From: Andy Sparrow Message-Id: <20020927173019.71B96117@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> 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 --==_Exmh_178752788P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 --==_Exmh_178752788P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE9lJWqPHh895bDXeQRAhYLAKC5K5aOm1i8xn97BMg2XomsQ2YPKACdGAps kGKq/DACHNmuNnfPd9UN/64= =ngx5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_178752788P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message