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Date:      Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:20:04 +0300
From:      Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>
To:        Igor Sysoev <is@rambler-co.ru>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: VMware2 and CDROM image
Message-ID:  <20020712162004.GN45527@nevermind.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207101252210.66081-100000@is>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207101252210.66081-100000@is>

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Hello, Igor Sysoev!

On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 01:04:25PM +0400, you wrote:

> 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.
Hm, thank you, will test it this weekend.

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NEVE-RIPE
Ukrainian FreeBSD User Group
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