USB Slave mode - FreeBSD emulate a CDROM device?

Øystein Andreassen zyxmaw at gmail.com
Tue Jan 8 15:42:15 PST 2008


Hello,

I would like to make my FreeBSD pc a USB CD/DVD-ROM for a server.
I have a lot of bootable ISO images and I dont like to waste time and  
CD´s
on burning this images each time I need to use them (I usally damage  
or loose
them between each time or they have been updated).  So instead I would  
like
to know if it is possible to make the FreeBSD USB stack behave as a  
USB slave
and present an ISO image to another machine via a usb host-to-host  
cable.
(I need to boot from the CD´s).

Anyone know?

I have seen some signs of this on Linux via a framework called usb- 
gadget.
I think some people one The BlackDog project have made a driver that  
does
exactly what I want, but its via their special device (just to install  
drivers) and
they don't make it anymore. :(

Regards,
Øystein Andreassen
  


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