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Date:      Tue, 1 Oct 2013 09:18:02 +0300
From:      Alexander Yerenkow <yerenkow@gmail.com>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?= <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, aryeh.friedman@gmail.com
Subject:   Re: best way to make dvd appear to me a .iso file to the FS
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Iso creating is probably necessary in general case, since some media
contain bootable part of cd, which are not seen as files but required  to
boot.
Of course passthrough of cd/dvd/bd device is interesting, but I think for
most usages of bhyve as virt platform correct work with iso is enough.

Regards, Alexander Yerenkow
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=B5=D0=BB=D1=8C "Fernando Apestegu=C3=ADa" <
fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> =D0=BD=D0=B0=D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=81=D0=B0=D0=BB:

> El 01/10/2013 03:46, "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> escribi=
=C3=B3:
> >
> > bhyveload(8) only let's you use .ISO's for install media and I want to
> make
> > it so I can just insert a DVD (/dev/cd0) and bhyve can read it as if it
> was
> > a just a normal file and not a device... short of copying it to the har=
d
> > drive is there any other solution anyone can think of?
>
> You could use mkisofs/growisofs to create such file from the mounted
> CD/DVD.
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