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From: Otto Sykora Otto on 22 Jan 2007 11:46
I have some files made by the slax-linux, they are in the .iso format for CD
burning.

How do I use those with virtual pc?

From: Colin Barnhorst on 22 Jan 2007 12:03
You cannot burn a cd using the emulated optical drive in a virtual machine.
The drive is read only. You can create the .iso file in the vm and transfer
that to the host over a network connection and use the host's software to
burn the cd.

"Otto Sykora" <Otto Sykora(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D7329AC4-2020-43B9-BE95-38A130DDF134(a)microsoft.com...
>I have some files made by the slax-linux, they are in the .iso format for
>CD
> burning.
>
> How do I use those with virtual pc?
>

From: Otto Sykora on 23 Jan 2007 07:02


"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:

> You cannot burn a cd using the emulated optical drive in a virtual machine.
> The drive is read only. You can create the .iso file in the vm and transfer
> that to the host over a network connection and use the host's software to
> burn the cd.
>
> "Otto Sykora" <Otto Sykora(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:D7329AC4-2020-43B9-BE95-38A130DDF134(a)microsoft.com...
> >I have some files made by the slax-linux, they are in the .iso format for
> >CD
> > burning.
> >
> > How do I use those with virtual pc?
> >


small missunderstanding,
I have built myself some live CD distros of Linux with slax toolkit.
Now I have a iso file, when I burn this on CD it boots from there, OK, I can
use it also with the VMware player as virtual computer.

Now I wanted use this iso file the same way in MS VPc.
How do I include such system, burried in an iso file as a valid system into
the virtual pc?


>
From: Paul Adare on 23 Jan 2007 07:12
In article <91783C7A-7410-4FA7-A208-C9D4917FEBDE(a)microsoft.com>,
in the microsoft.public.virtualpc news group, =?Utf-8?B?
T3R0byBTeWtvcmE=?= <OttoSykora(a)discussions.microsoft.com>
says...

> small missunderstanding,
> I have built myself some live CD distros of Linux with slax toolkit.
> Now I have a iso file, when I burn this on CD it boots from there, OK, I can
> use it also with the VMware player as virtual computer.
>
> Now I wanted use this iso file the same way in MS VPc.
> How do I include such system, burried in an iso file as a valid system into
> the virtual pc?
>

You need to create a virtual machine, start the virtual machine
and then mount the ISO image in the virtual machine using either
the CD menu or the CD icon in the lower left of the virtual
machine window. It helps to pause the virtual machine right
after you start it (host key+P) and then resume it once you've
got the ISO mounted. You can find details on using ISO images in
the help for VPC.

--
Paul Adare - MVP Virtual Machines
Waiting for a bus is about as thrilling as fishing,
with the similar tantalisation that something,
sometime, somehow, will turn up. George Courtauld

From: Otto Sykora on 23 Jan 2007 08:00


"Paul Adare" wrote:

> In article <91783C7A-7410-4FA7-A208-C9D4917FEBDE(a)microsoft.com>,
> in the microsoft.public.virtualpc news group, =?Utf-8?B?
> T3R0byBTeWtvcmE=?= <OttoSykora(a)discussions.microsoft.com>
> says...
>
> > small missunderstanding,
> > I have built myself some live CD distros of Linux with slax toolkit.
> > Now I have a iso file, when I burn this on CD it boots from there, OK, I can
> > use it also with the VMware player as virtual computer.
> >
> > Now I wanted use this iso file the same way in MS VPc.
> > How do I include such system, burried in an iso file as a valid system into
> > the virtual pc?
> >
>
> You need to create a virtual machine, start the virtual machine
> and then mount the ISO image in the virtual machine using either
> the CD menu or the CD icon in the lower left of the virtual
> machine window. It helps to pause the virtual machine right
> after you start it (host key+P) and then resume it once you've
> got the ISO mounted. You can find details on using ISO images in
> the help for VPC.
>
> --
> Paul Adare - MVP Virtual Machines
> Waiting for a bus is about as thrilling as fishing,
> with the similar tantalisation that something,
> sometime, somehow, will turn up. George Courtauld
>
>

OK, so I will create an empty machine, then attempt iut to start.
It will probably search for floppy or similar and then I can go to the menu
and make the CD free?

OK, but can I somehow copy such iso file onto the harddrive and include it
into the virtual pc same way as a finished ready to use vhd?
Or how to convert iso to vhd? Is this possible?

For explanation: the vmware allows me to use the iso image alloe as a
virtual machine.

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