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Accessing a Virtual CD-Rom drive  
I am running QNX 4.25 in VMWare on an XP machine. Is is possible to access files from a virtual CD-Rom? I.e. a drive 
mounted with Power ISO
RE: Accessing a Virtual CD-Rom drive  
Sure.  Via add hardware you can add a CD/DVD, which QNX should detect automaticaly .  You might have to start 
ISO9600fsys ( the name isn`t right, memory fails me at this time).


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From: John Walsh [community-noreply@qnx.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 11:25 AM
To: qnx4-community
Subject: Accessing a Virtual CD-Rom drive

I am running QNX 4.25 in VMWare on an XP machine. Is is possible to access files from a virtual CD-Rom? I.e. a drive 
mounted with Power ISO

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QNX4 Community Support
http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post19292
Re: RE: Accessing a Virtual CD-Rom drive  
OK, I found 1/2 of a solution. But, I don't think this is the best way because now I can not access my regular CD-rom. 

If you open your VMWare .vmx file you can find some lines like this:

ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "E:"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"

This will mount your real CD-rom drive of you computer. 



To access some virtual mounted image as a CD-rom drive you do this:

ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "C:\<some path>\<some ISO file>.iso"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"

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But, as I said, you should be able to access both by doing this:

ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "E:"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"

ide2:0.present = "TRUE"
ide2:0.fileName = "C:\<some path>\<some ISO file>.iso"
ide2:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"

But when I do this I can never successfully access the second drive. Does anyone know how this can be done?


RE: RE: Accessing a Virtual CD-Rom drive  
By specifying IDE 2.0 you are setting up an IDE controller that QNX doesn`t autodetect.  You could try setting up the 
second disk as a slave on the secondary controller by specifying ide 1:1.
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Walsh [mailto:community-noreply@qnx.com]
> Sent: January-06-09 8:01 AM
> To: qnx4-community
> Subject: Re: RE: Accessing a Virtual CD-Rom drive
> 
> OK, I found 1/2 of a solution. But, I don't think this is the best way
> because now I can not access my regular CD-rom.
> 
> If you open your VMWare .vmx file you can find some lines like this:
> 
> ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
> ide1:0.fileName = "E:"
> ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
> 
> This will mount your real CD-rom drive of you computer.
> 
> 
> 
> To access some virtual mounted image as a CD-rom drive you do this:
> 
> ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
> ide1:0.fileName = "C:\<some path>\<some ISO file>.iso"
> ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------
> 
> 
> 
> But, as I said, you should be able to access both by doing this:
> 
> ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
> ide1:0.fileName = "E:"
> ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
> 
> ide2:0.present = "TRUE"
> ide2:0.fileName = "C:\<some path>\<some ISO file>.iso"
> ide2:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
> 
> But when I do this I can never successfully access the second drive.
> Does anyone know how this can be done?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> QNX4 Community Support
> http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post19430
> 
Re: RE: RE: Accessing a Virtual CD-Rom drive  
I've tried all these things. I also asked a former QNX employee at a training class I attended and he couldn't get it to
 work either. So, it appears that the OS will only support one CD rom drive at a time.