On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Alexey Eremenko <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/1/10, chris hallsworth <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dear all, including VirtualBox developers, >> I wish to make a suggestion to your product. I would like to see it >> automate a Windows or Linux guest operating system installation, >> including automatically installing the VirtualBox guest additions >> appropriate to the guest operating system. I primarily use VMware, and >> it's an excellent feature, not only for blind or visually impaired >> users, but also users who are novices to this area. I feel this feature >> will also save time in following the instructions to complete guest >> operating system installation, as well as the installation of VirtualBox >> Guest Additions. >> I urge you to please take my thoughts into consideration. >> Many thanks, and keep up the good works! >> -- > > Yes, I agree that this is a very important feature to have. > > See: > Feature Request: (Automatic) Unattended Guest OS Install (aka Easy Install) > http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5810 > > a BIG problem is that there is no way to loop-mount floppy/CD/HDD > images on Windows host. This would require writing drivers.
Alexey, Maybe it´s a matter of getting in touch with these guys? http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html#ImDisk "You can use and redistribute the utilities and source code as you like, but remember to link back to this site or my e-mail adress and always attach any following text file when you redistribute the utilities" "ImDisk is a virtual disk driver for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008. It can create virtual hard disk, floppy or CD/DVD drives using image files or system memory. The install package installs a console-mode control program called imdisk.exe and a Control Panel applet." ---------------- Source code Source code for all of ImDisk, including a server-part for *nix like systems, is available as a 7-zip compressed file here (94 KB). The Windows parts of the source code can be built in the Windows 2000 build environemt in the latest WDK and the *nix parts can be built with gcc. If you want to call functions for creating/removing/querying virtual disks from your own program you can #include the file inc\imdisk.h in your C/C++ source files and link the cpl\i386\imdisk.lib library. If you would like information about how to write compatible server-end software you can take a look at the I/O packet structures in inc\imdproxy.h. License I have received some e-mails with questions wether or not it is okay to include this driver in a commercial product. The answer is yes, just like all other tools I publish here. However, note that a few lines of code are under the GNU GPL license, this is basically the parts related to floppy emulation. Some of the driver code is also ported to Windows NT from the FreeBSD 'md' driver. ---------------- FC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
