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. -- NEVE-RIPE Ukrainian FreeBSD User Group http://uafug.org.ua/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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