On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 16:16, Rodney Gordon II wrote: > Recently installed VMware (build 8848 latest last time I checked) and > when specifying /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd as my CDROM's when I boot up > VMware it 'attaches' to those, but in whatever OS I am running it sees > those as 'removable disks' .. Never had this problem in Debian so I > believe it is FC2 specific.. > > I also tried booting up VMware with a CD in /dev/hdc and > boot-off-cdrom in the VMware BIOS, still no luck.. It doesn't even > know there is a CD there and does not try to boot off of it, so I > can't even get it to work when a CD is inserted, I had to rip my WinXP > CD to an ISO and use the ISO CD emulation feature. > > An ls is as follows: > meff@ghreen:~$ ls -al /dev/hdc /dev/hdd > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 0 Feb 23 15:02 /dev/hdc > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 64 Feb 23 15:02 /dev/hdd > > I am not logged in as root, though I manually handle my devices > instead of leaving it to console.perms, but I am indeed in the disk > group, and as you can see above I have rw permissions. > > Anyone have any ideas? Sorry if this does not belong on this list but > I am pretty sure it is FC2 specific. > > Thanks alot, > -r > > -- > Rodney "meff" Gordon II -+- meff <at> pobox <dot> com > You might need to play with some of the VM Settings, if I recall correctly. As I check mine (I am also FC2 Host, VMWare 4.5.2-8848), the DVD/CD-ROM Settings are: Device Status Connect at Power On Connection Use a physical drive: Device: /dev/cdrom Legacy emulation Virtual device node IDE: IDE 1:0 I know some folks have had to twiddle the Legacy emulation part at different times. There have also been problems in porting Guest VMs from FC1 to FC2 since the CD-ROM handler dropped the hdc=ide-scsi piece as a kernel parameter. Had to uninstall the VMWare Tools and then reinstall them to be happy when I upgraded.... HTH, --Rob
