Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:53:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> To: Igor Sysoev <is@rambler-co.ru> Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: VMware2 and CDROM image Message-ID: <200207101653.g6AGrH801103@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207101252210.66081-100000@is>
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Igor Sysoev writes: | 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. This sounds really cool. I've wanted to do this before and couldn't. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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