Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (380 mails)

["M. Ranjit Mathews" <ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm running SUSE 9.0 for AMD64:
# uname -a
Linux linux 2.4.21-201-smp #1 SMP Wed Feb 18 19:17:53
UTC 2004 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I installed VMware 4.5 & configured it with
vmware-config.pl:
# rpm -qa | fgrep -i vmware
VMwareWorkstation-4.5.0-7174

I went to the dev directory and linked sr0 to cdrom
# ls -l cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            3 Feb 26
02:08 cdrom -> sr0

I have no trouble accessing fd0 and cdrom from a
command line with media in them:
# dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
# dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/dev/null count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out

When I start the virtual machine, it says fd0 doesn't
seem to be a floppy drive and that I can start the
virtual machine without a floopy drive.

When the boot proceeds gets to the cdrom, an oops
message from the kernel appears and to get things back
to normal, I have to restart the host system (dual
Opteron 240)

If I remove fd0 and cdrom from the virtual machine
definition, the boot sequence makes it to a PXE boot;
there's no more Oops.

QUESTION:
How can I give the virtual machine access to
a floppy drive and CDROM (I have an NEC BD2500 DVD-RW/
CD-RW)?