Re: [Nbd] Boot a virtualbox guest using a remote dvd drive accessed by nbd

[Wouter Verhelst <w@...112...>]

On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 05:03:43PM +0700, Peter Nield wrote:
> I apologise in advance if this appears a stupid/obvious question.
> 
> I am trying to use a remote dvd drive to start a dvd distro on a pc with 
> no dvd drive (hence I'm trying nbd).
> 
> Virtualbox has 2 methods for starting a guest by cd/dvd.
> 
>    1. Mount a dvd on the host machine
>    2. Mount an iso image from harddisk
> 
> The latter method works for me if I mount the nbd device and point VB at 
> the iso image on the dvd volume.

What do you mean by "the iso image on the DVD volume"?

Did you do the second option, giving it '/dev/nbX' as the image file?
That would probably work; if it doesn't, you're out of luck (mostly,
anyway; you could dd the iso to your local machine).

> The former gives a 0003 error and says it cannot read the dvd.

That's perfectly normal.

> I read in a former post (related to dvd/rw drives) that nbd did not 
> support ioctl()'s other than read/write.
> Could this be the reason for the boot failure?

Of course it is.

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