[CS-FSLUG] Re: Christiansource Digest, Vol 10, Issue 76

[Bradly McConnell]

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 06:26:35 -0500, Wade A Smith <warm38 at juno.com> wrote:

> I may have to do that. <grumble>
> I assume that it will make and ISO of the whole CD. Correct?
> 
> And where does it offer to "boot from CD"?
> (OK, so maybe I'm a little dense and blind, but
> help a feller out, here.  OK?)

You should be able to edit the settings of the virtual machine.  I
haven't played around with VMWARE in a while, but here is a snippet
from the VMWARE docs - since you are on dialup, I'm pasting it in. 
There were numbers for the steps but they disappeared.  Like the
others have said, as long as you have it configured to connect at
power-on, it should autoboot just like a real bios would.

>>Changing the DVD/CD-ROM Drive Configuration 

>From the VirtualCenter client, select the virtual machine. 
Click Inventory in the navigation bar. Expand the inventory as needed,
and click the appropriate virtual machine.

Display the Virtual Machine Properties dialog box. 
In the Summary tab, click Edit Properties or choose Edit > Properties. 

Click the Hardware tab. Click the DVD/CD-ROM drive in the Device list. 

Make changes as needed. Select the device status, connection, or
virtual device node for the virtual machine to use.
If you do not want the CD-ROM drive connected when the virtual machine
starts, deselect Connect at power on.
Select Use physical drive if you want to connect the virtual machine's
drive to a physical drive on the host computer. Select Use ISO Image
if you want to connect the virtual machine's drive to an ISO image
file.
Do one of the following: 
If you selected Use physical drive, choose the drive you want to use
from the drop-down list or choose Auto detect.
For an ESX Server virtual machine, if the virtual machine is using a
non-standard CD-ROM or if you are experiencing problems with a CD-ROM,
check Enable raw access.

For a GSX Server virtual machine, if you are connecting to the host's
physical CD-ROM drive (instead of pointing to an ISO image), you can
select Connect exclusively to this virtual machine to prevent other
virtual machines and the host from using the CD-ROM drive until you
disconnect it from this virtual machine or you power off or suspend
the virtual machine.

You can select Legacy emulation. This is necessary only if you have
had problems using normal mode. The legacy emulation mode does not
support all the capabilities of normal mode. This is similar to
enabling raw access on an ESX Server host.

For information about exclusive connections and legacy emulation, see
www.vmware.com/support/gsx3/doc/disks_opt_gsx.html.

If you selected Use ISO Image, enter the path and filename for the
image file or click Browse to navigate to the file.
Under Virtual device node, select the device node the drive uses in
the virtual machine.
Click OK to save your changes. The Virtual Machine Properties dialog
box closes.<<