Re: [Qemu-devel] Installing a guest WXP on a MacOS X host

[Michael L Torrie]

On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 09:06, Alexandre Tolmos wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm new to QEMU and I'd like to know how to boot a Windows XP  
> installation CDROM from MacOS X. Do I need to create an ISO image from  
> my WXP CDROM or can I boot directly from it e.g. using "-cdrom  
> /dev/<device>" ?

Maybe.  The device name under OS X can be found by running disktool -l
from the command line.  then the dev entry will be /dev/disk# where # is
the number you found running disktool.

> 
> Which tools are needed to create an ISO image from a CDROM ?

Probably the easiest is to use "disktool -l" to determine the device
name of the cd (which should be automounted).  then do:
dd if=/dev/disk# of=image.iso

Replace the disk# with the proper disk name from disktool's output.

Michael


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