RHEV - virtualization of win xp machine

Mon Dec 21 18:47:57 UTC 2009

Yes, with "dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/tmp/winxp.iso" you can create a bootable iso file from a dvd or cd.
bs and count is not needed for this.

Thomas

On 21.12.2009, at 18:21, esggrupos at gmail.com wrote:

> Hi Joseph,
> 
> No I haven`t, which is the command to make it with dd?
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> dd if=/dev/hda of=/tmp/image.iso
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> is this right? (being /dev/hda the cdrom) what about bs and count parameters?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> ESG
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> 
> 
> El , joseph baudean <jdbaudean at gmail.com> escribió:
>> Have you tried using dd to make an iso from your winxp cd?
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>> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:35 AM, esggrupos at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Hi all,
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>> >
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>> > I´m still testing RHEV as virtualization solution, and I have a problem
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>> > creating win xp virtual machines.
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>> >
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>> > With RHEL there is not problem, I have used a boot.iso to launch the
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>> > installation and with a Web server with the source tree I do the
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>> > installation.
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>> > The problem is with Win. (of course ;-)) I have seen in the demos that I
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>> > must use a iso file with the installation but I haven´t such iso file. I
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>> > only have an win xp installation CD
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>> >
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>> > I have tried to make a iso file with the mkisofs command but I can get this
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>> > file bootable.
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>> >
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>> > so my two questions are:
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>> >
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>> > Can´t I use the boot CD directly to create a win image machine (with vmware
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>> > is as easy as to put the CD in the drive)?
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>> > how can I make a boot iso from the CD to use it to create a virtual machine
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>> >
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>> > Thanks
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>> >
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>> > ESG
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