Virtual Cdrom

[Pascua Gomer]

Theaim of the exercise is to install Server 2019 on the servers. Since the server won't boot from the Server 2019 iso I thought I would try using Intelligent Provisioning (IP). The IP is quite old on the servers, 2.40.79 and only shows Server 2016 so I thought I would update the IP version.

All isos boot fine on a Gen8 server that is installed on the same network and on Virtualbox on my laptop. I do not have physical access to write the isos to a USB to insert them in the server and there are 7 servers to update which are spread out across a large geographical area.

The isos are readable as I have booted into IP on one of them, mounted the Server 2016 iso through virtual cdrom and am in the process of installing Server 2016 on it. This is proceeding, incredibly slowly.

I am attempting to help a client but I am a bit out of my depth, they have a XS6 dedicated server, and I have created a series of virtual drives for various distros, using isos we have. For example /mnt/centos6.2 - I also tried /media/centos6.2 - however when I attempt to install VMs through XenCenter, the server DVD drives section is blank. How would I mount a drive so that XenCenter detects it properly as a drive?

It sounds like they are doing weird stuff. Put all the isos in a directory on windows and share it on the network ( samba under Linux works great too). Then from the XenCenter GUI add a new storage repository. Choose "windows file sharing" iso library. Now you will be able to mount these isos and install vms

Iwant to create a virtual CD on AMT system but i dont know how to do this. some documents said that going to BIOS and set Wake On Lan from S5 to Stay off. I also tried this step but nothing can change at all.

Its holidays timeand the response is slow in the forum because of that. Coming to your question, I would like to understand what is the reason you need a virtual CD-Rom? After AMT is provisioned, when you initiate a IDE-R/SOL session, Intel AMT software will create a virtula CD-Rom. I dont think the Wake on Lan from S5 setting will create a virtual CD-Rom. That setting is one of the low power state for the ME/AMT.

Its a good way to use the AMT features. So in order to achieve the re-installation of OS on PC2, you need a CD or image file that has all thenecessary files and the drivers to access the local hard drive of PC2.

Once you have the image, from PC1, using SyAM software, you can start a IDE-R/SOL session using this CD or image. One thing to remember here is that with SOL you can only do the text redirection of the PC2, not the GUI. If you just want to achieve, you will not have to create any virtual CD-Rom, AMT will take care of it.

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Firstly why does a company create something like a virtual cd-rom drive on a hdd and does not include anyway to remove it from the drive, but to top it off it also allows you download the same software off they website so therefore neglects to the public that the CDFS was not need in the first place, just another way for the company to say that you can only use your new hdd plugged into computer and for virtual drive to work it must be a Microsoft OS as it does not support mac which in turn brings up the reason to why was this virtual cd rom created whon only windows user can see and us it, yet it does not give you any way to remove the virtual drive which I find is really pathetic, it is only a piece of software coding that is either store on chip within the device and then creates the virtual drive from the HDD, if this is not case then please correct me, but either way it is not a hardware function with the device as it requires code for this type of application to run and therefore a code can be made to remove this application from running.

I know from experience that when dealing with buffalo support they are next to useless as they just copy and paste prescripted answers that all amount to one thing that buffalo are too lazy to create a tool, that has more than likely all ready been created for testing purposes when the drive was design and release to general public and let them make the decision to where or not that they want to keep the virtual drive on the hdd or just have a plane FAT32 drive that will function fine and still allow the encrytion to work or if that is not case, to just remove the encrytion feature all together.

In Windows XP Professional, if you cannot access or modify GPT disk, you can convert a GPT disk to MBR by using the clean command in DiskPart, which will remove all data and partition structures from the disk.

Go to DOS command line (click on Start Menu, then Run, type in cmd in textbox, and hit OK)

* Type in DiskPart in command line.

* Type in list disk in command line to show all disks in this machine.

* Use select to set the focus to the specified partition, for example select disk 1?.

* Use clean command to remove GPT disk from the current in-focus disk by zeroing sectors.

3. Go back to Disk Management, you can see the HD disks are unallocated now. Right click on disk info, choose Initialize Disk.

You clearly did not understand the thread starter's concern. The thread starter is not "moaning" about the encrypted partition but the virtual drive that loads everytime the unit is inserted into the USB port. READ the title before commenting. And nowhere does it say in the the product packaging and website that a virtual cd-rom will be loaded once you insert the device.

as well as extensive hardware intervention (opening case, detaching IC pins, soldering, etc.) to get it to update the firmware in the HP drive. It is clearly not for the average user and would void the Buffalo warranty.

That said, it implies that a software solution like that from WD could be created by Buffalo that correctly recognizes the controller in the Buffalo USB drive (eliminating the need for hardware intervention) and performs a similar firmware update to remove the virtual CDROM. Let's hope Buffalo provides this...

I recently got a Western Digital MyBook external hard drive to enable Time Machine. It has its software installed on a "virtual CD" called "WD SmartWare" which shows up on the desktop any time the drive is plugged in. Since I will use this virtual drive only very rarely, how can I hide it from the desktop, while allowing other CDs to show up?

but VCD didn't work until I changed the security preferences, which I had to do with the smartware to get rid of the password. Then after VCD worked, the My Book was still read only, so I used the smartware which was still installed to erase everything already on the drive, and then it finally worked like an external hard drive is supposed to and was read and writable (and then I deleted the smartware software I had installed on my computer)

I just plugged it in to one of my system. Then I booted that system up to an Xp install CD and then when given the option from the CD as to what hard-drive I wanted to install to I chose the MyBook and deleted the partition and then formatted it using the Install cd. Once tha formatting was done, I then canceled the CD boot and restarted my system. Now I have a clean MyBook with nothing on it at all, just like the darn thing is supposed to be.

Second, on Linux, I ran palimpsest (a disk management utility w/ a GUI) removed all visible partitions and chose Format drive -> Master Boot Record -> BSD. I then chose Format drive->don't partition.

You have to copy it to your hard drive to run it (otherwise, it gives you an error message saying as much), and once you've done that, you just run it and follow the prompts. Each time you go through the process, it will alternate between being visible and being hidden.

Note: This software is the same software that you can download as mentioned in other answers... In this answer, I'm just pointing out that a version of it (though presumably it may not be the latest version, and therefore you may want to download it) exists on the "virtual CD" already, which you can copy and run.

HI, i need a way to mount a .iso image as a CD to play a game in wine. I tried the wine way to use the drives directory but i have no success. The only way i had this work in linux was in ubuntu with Gmount-iso, ut in Arch with the gmount-iso from AUR i get an error(command not found, i had loaded the loop module so no idea why is not working. Is there a simple way to use mount and somehow link the folder with /dev or something to appear to be a real CD?

for isoman i had to create the /media/cdrom folder

and if i try to mount the file in /dev/cd or /dev/cdrom it always mounts my file in /media/cdrom.

I need that this file to be mounted as a virtual cd, to appear as a removable media. Nice ths isoman , if it cheks for loop module then it can be useful no need to load it first

Thx

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