On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 04:30, Robert Locke wrote: > 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 Dittto on the legacy emulation (vmware on fc2) -- Ow Mun Heng Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive Neuromancer 09:36:40 up 57 min, 5 users, load average: 0.32, 0.20, 0.28
