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 1MlfHr-0005pd-7R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:45:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 253A6E0913; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:45:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq1.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq1.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.164]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFA7FE0913 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:45:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.134] (helo=smtp3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq1.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MlfHo-0007EB-Tr for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:45:48 +0200 Received: from 5353258a.cable.casema.nl ([83.83.37.138] helo=data.hosts.antarean.org) by smtp3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MlfHo-0001qL-1y for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:45:48 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.hosts.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 737051DCEA for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:45:47 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.hosts.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.hosts.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ZFdqhVYkpwlk for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:45:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.hosts.antarean.org [10.1.5.100]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.hosts.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 57D82E228 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:45:47 +0200 (CEST) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:45:46 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.27-gentoo-r7; KDE/4.2.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <46d08bd30909051021o46e07266kca05250ade713661@mail.gmail.com> <200909091335.41777.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> In-Reply-To: <200909091335.41777.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> 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: <200909101045.46821.joost@antarean.org> X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1MlfHo-0001qL-1y X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-2.599, vereist 5, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: 9764252f-93dc-4413-813f-3c2c6073bcae X-Archives-Hash: 6408d7ed6322671a65b37ee7203c3bbf On Wednesday 09 September 2009 14:35:41 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 08 September 2009 18:56:50 walt wrote: > > Are you seeing something very different at your end? > > Yes. I've created just one VM (this is on my KDE-4 test system). On the > Details tab I get a list of configuration variables with their values. > Under CD/DVD ROM I have "Mount CD/DVD drive" selected, and the "Host CD/DVD > drive" drop-down box contains just the one entry: /dev/fd0. > > That's why I said I can't install a guest OS - the VM can't read the > installation CD. Have I to make an ISO from the CD and mount that? Seems > like a bit of a roundabout route if so. In addition to the screenshot, using Linux it's very easy to create an ISO-file from an existing CD/DVD. I always do it with: # cp /dev/cdrom /bladiebla.iso (change paths / names as appropriate) No need to install additional software to do this and I have succesfully used this to create ISO images from MS Windows install media as well for use with both VirtualBox and VMWare. -- Joost