Re: best way to make dvd appear to me a .iso file to the FS
El 01/10/2013 03:46, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com escribió: 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 hard drive is there any other solution anyone can think of? You could use mkisofs/growisofs to create such file from the mounted CD/DVD. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: best way to make dvd appear to me a .iso file to the FS
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 01.10.2013 9:05 пользователь Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteg...@gmail.com написал: El 01/10/2013 03:46, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com escribió: 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 hard drive is there any other solution anyone can think of? You could use mkisofs/growisofs to create such file from the mounted CD/DVD. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: best way to make dvd appear to me a .iso file to the FS
On 9/30/13 9:46 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: 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 hard drive is there any other solution anyone can think of? Well, you can create a zvol to hold the bootable UFS filesystem, and just mount the cd-image, and extract the /usr/freebsd-dist/* tarfiles directly into the freshly created filesystem... -Kurt ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: best way to make dvd appear to me a .iso file to the FS
That solution works only for a FreeBSD install disk. I am looking for a more general solution, for an install CD/DVD for any x86-compatible OS. (Currently bhyve cannot handle other OS's besides FreeBSD, but they are planning to add support for other OS's.) (I am one of the developers of PetiteCloud, a forthcoming front end for bhyve. See the virtualization list for details.) On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Kurt Lidl l...@pix.net wrote: On 9/30/13 9:46 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: 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 hard drive is there any other solution anyone can think of? Well, you can create a zvol to hold the bootable UFS filesystem, and just mount the cd-image, and extract the /usr/freebsd-dist/* tarfiles directly into the freshly created filesystem... -Kurt ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
