From: Heiko Wundram <me+gentoo-user@modelnine.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] virtual cdroms in linux
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 18:55:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603011855.16521.me+gentoo-user@modelnine.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bba6100b0603010902x378c204et8db21e867020d64d@mail.gmail.com>
Am Mittwoch, 1. März 2006 18:02 schrieb Nick Smith:
> vmware tells me that /dev/loop1 exsists but does not appear to be a
> cdrom device, is there something else i have to do?
As I said, YMMV. The loop device doesn't support CD-ROM-device IOCTLs, which
are required by VMware as it seems. There's nothing you can do about that,
except to use the internal CD-ROM emulation that VMware offers. As it seems
that this doesn't work for you, you're out of luck.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-01 15:16 [gentoo-user] virtual cdroms in linux Nick Smith
2006-03-01 16:16 ` Uwe Klosa
2006-03-01 16:27 ` Nick Smith
2006-03-01 16:53 ` Heiko Wundram
2006-03-01 17:02 ` Nick Smith
2006-03-01 17:55 ` Heiko Wundram [this message]
2006-03-01 18:09 ` Nick Smith
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