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