From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 14 02:49:56 2003 Return-Path: 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 0F59437B401 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 02:49:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from park.rambler.ru (park.rambler.ru [81.19.64.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D79F43F75 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 02:49:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from is@rambler-co.ru) Received: from is.park.rambler.ru (is.park.rambler.ru [81.19.64.102]) by park.rambler.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h3E9nkmF040101; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 13:49:46 +0400 (MSD) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 13:49:46 +0400 (MSD) From: Igor Sysoev X-Sender: is@is To: Martin Blapp In-Reply-To: <20030414111139.C4749@cvs.imp.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMware3 + VMware4 support plans X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:49:56 -0000 On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Martin Blapp wrote: > > Uhh, not wanting to seem ungrateful for this tremendous (and much > > anticipated) work or anything, but could we get the following patch (or > > something functionally similar) from Igor committed at the same time? > > > > http://sysoev.ru/freebsd/patch.vn_cd.txt > > > > It's extremely useful for persuading VMWare to accept a mounted ISO > > image as a real life CD-ROM. With this patch, VMWare just can't tell the > > difference. > > The patch doesn't include an updated man page - would a PR make it > > easier? > > Yeah I guess so. Can you make a updated patch with manpage and file > a PR ? I'll review it then and commit. Here are two fragments for manpage. Please correct my English. In DESCRIPTION section, switches: ---- figured before any swap is allocated by the system. + + cdrom emulate some CD-ROM ioctls enough to use + VN device as CD-ROM device in VMware 2. follow debug flow in the vn(4) driver. ---- In EXAMPLES section: ---- you don't mind losing on every reboot. + + vnconfig -s cdrom -c vn0c iso_image + + Is an example of how to configure a file-backed VN device to use + as CD-ROM device in VMware 2. Path to this CD-ROM device in + VMware 2 configuration is /dev/vn0c. SEE ALSO ---- Igor Sysoev http://sysoev.ru/en/