best way to make dvd appear to me a .iso file to the FS

[Aryeh Friedman]

That solution works only for a FreeBSD install disk.  I am looking for a
more general solution, for an install CD/DVD for any x86-compatible OS.
(Currently bhyve cannot handle other OS's besides FreeBSD, but they are
planning to add support for other OS's.)

(I am one of the developers of PetiteCloud, a forthcoming front end for
bhyve.  See the virtualization list for details.)


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Kurt Lidl <lidl at pix.net> wrote:

> On 9/30/13 9:46 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
>
>> bhyveload(8) only let's you use .ISO's for install media and I want to
>> make
>> it so I can just insert a DVD (/dev/cd0) and bhyve can read it as if it
>> was
>> a just a normal file and not a device... short of copying it to the hard
>> drive is there any other solution anyone can think of?
>>
>
> Well, you can create a zvol to hold the bootable UFS filesystem,
> and just mount the cd-image, and extract the /usr/freebsd-dist/*
> tarfiles directly into the freshly created filesystem...
>
> -Kurt
>
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