From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 28 2:11:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7149337B401; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 02:11:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from park.rambler.ru (park.rambler.ru [217.73.193.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92F3F43E4A; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 02:11:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from is@rambler-co.ru) Received: from is (is.stack.net [217.73.193.40]) by park.rambler.ru (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g8S9BQ050992; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 13:11:27 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from is@rambler-co.ru) Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 13:11:26 +0400 (MSD) From: Igor Sysoev X-Sender: is@is To: Andy Sparrow Cc: emulation@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vnconfig/CDROM patch for VMWare In-Reply-To: <20020927173019.71B96117@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message