From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Jul 16 0:34: 6 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 B557837B400 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 00:34:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from birch.ripe.net (birch.ripe.net [193.0.1.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA8E043E65 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 00:34:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marks@ripe.net) Received: from laptop.6bone.nl (penguin.ripe.net [193.0.1.232]) by birch.ripe.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g6G7Xpt14631; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 09:33:51 +0200 Received: (nullmailer pid 72282 invoked by uid 1000); Tue, 16 Jul 2002 06:43:34 -0000 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 08:43:34 +0200 From: Mark Santcroos To: Igor Sysoev Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware2 and CDROM image Message-ID: <20020716064333.GK64428@laptop.6bone.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i X-Handles: MS6-6BONE, MS18417-RIPE X-RIPE-NCC-SpamStatus: Found to be clean X-RIPE-NCC-SpamCheck: SpamAssassin (score=-103.4, required 10, IN_REP_TO, USER_IN_WHITELIST) 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 Good work, started working on such a change for the md driver (-current) just before my vacation. Will take a look at your code. Mark On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 01:04:25PM +0400, Igor Sysoev wrote: > > 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message -- Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/ New Projects Group/TTM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message