From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 29 11:37:58 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 588BC37B401; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 11:37:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A61343E3B; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 11:37:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.5/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g8TIbrPQ022265; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 11:37:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.5/8.12.4/Submit) id g8TIbp7f022264; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 11:37:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 11:37:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200209291837.g8TIbp7f022264@apollo.backplane.com> To: Andy Sparrow Cc: Igor Sysoev , emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vnconfig/CDROM patch for VMWare References: <20020927173019.71B96117@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> 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 The patch looks good to me. It certainly isn't going to break anything that's already in VN since all it does is add a couple of new ioctls. I would be happy to commit it but we are too close to the 4.7 release so it will have to go in after the release. -Matt Matthew Dillon :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. : :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. : : :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