making hvm iso to block device?

[pixel fairy]

the instructions at qubes-os.org/doc/hvm have the iso file in dom0. is there a way to export an iso as a block device like partitions on a usb disk?

i dont think an unparsed iso file in dom0 is that dangerous, esp if you trust it enough to make a template vm, but i think the less we do in dom0, the better.

as an alternate, may a special vm just for making the hvm? could be good for trying an os when you dont even trust the iso it came from.

[grzegorz....@gmail.com]

Why would You want to do that? You can pass the .iso file as an rgument of the --drive or --cdrom arguments for the qvm-start script

If the iso resides in a vm all You need to do is do it like this (assuming the VM which holds the iso is named test and the hvm is named test2)

qvm start test2 --drive=:test\path\to\.iso

Remember to put \ character if You have spaces in the directory path or rename the files\catalogues so the names don't have spaces.

[pixel fairy]

thanks! i didnt scroll down far enough on that page :)