From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ml2bo-0004HR-ER for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:27:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ADBD0E0AA9; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 15:27:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81D35E0AA9 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 15:27:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B482DEF32 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 16:27:53 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id TijOwqlzrVao for ; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 16:27:49 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.ethnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E61C4DEB7E for ; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 16:27:52 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 16:16:27 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <46d08bd30909051021o46e07266kca05250ade713661@mail.gmail.com> <200909071002.21160.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200909081616.27386.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: 898e267a-8229-4028-9fb0-bb23787a8739 X-Archives-Hash: 09c868365fc625f15bc61ec53be5bed6 On Monday 07 September 2009 22:29:31 walt wrote: > On 09/07/2009 02:02 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I tried it, but on my box it can't detect either of the DVD drives, so > > I can't install a client. > > Hm, never tried that. The reason is that I've always just used an iso > file 'mounted' on the virtual machine's CD/DVD player to install a guest. > Most open-source OS's supply the install disk in the form of an iso > file, and to install Windows I create an iso file from the original > CD/DVD first. The trouble is that there isn't a CD or DVD player on the vm at all; only /dev/fd0, which isn't a lot of use to me. -- Rgds Peter