Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: winblows 2k on OSX?

[Jason <jason@monsterjam.org>]

Ok, I was thinking thats what I should do, but thanks for confirming it! ;)

Jason

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 11:44:30AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Jason <jason@monsterjam.org> writes:
> 
> > well, I was using that actually, but I just wanted to doublecheck..
> > I created a blank image file, and when I run that, I get
> >
> > mybox:~/qemu_images root# /opt/local/bin/qemu win2k.img -cdrom /dev/disk1s0 -boot d
> > /dev/disk1s0: Device busy
> > qemu: could not open hard disk image '/dev/disk1s0
> > mybox:~/qemu_images root# 
> >
> > thats after I ejected, re-inserted the win2k cdrom. Im not sure why its busy, 
> > but Im sure that /dev/disk1s0 is the CDROM on OSX.
> 
> I don't know how OS X works, so I don't know the correct solution
> for this.  But if you can copy the CD-ROM to an ISO image file,
> then it should work to specify the ISO file as the argument to
> CD-ROM.  This is what I always do.
> -- 
> On Perl: "It's as if H.P. Lovecraft, returned from the dead and speaking by
> seance to Larry Wall, designed a language both elegant and terrifying for his
> Elder Things to write programs in, and forgot that the Shoggoths didn't turn
> out quite so well in the long run." --Matt Olson
> 

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