Virtual CD drive for FreeBSD?

[Mark Ovens]

Is there such a thing as a virtual CD drive in the Ports. Something that
allows you to treat an ISO image file - data or audio - as though it
were a real CD in a real drive? Like Nero ImageDrive in Windows.

TIA

Regards,

Mark

[Svein Halvor Halvorsen]

Post by Mark Ovens
Is there such a thing as a virtual CD drive in the Ports. Something that
allows you to treat an ISO image file - data or audio - as though it
were a real CD in a real drive? Like Nero ImageDrive in Windows.

Look no further than the base system. mdconfig(8) the image file, and
then mount_cd9660(8) the device node.

[Eric Schuele]

Post by Mark Ovens
Is there such a thing as a virtual CD drive in the Ports. Something that
allows you to treat an ISO image file - data or audio - as though it
were a real CD in a real drive? Like Nero ImageDrive in Windows.
TIA
Regards,
Mark
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man mdconfig

[Michael McDowell]

FreeBSD is very upto date :-)

Michael

Post by Eric Schuele

Post by Mark Ovens
Is there such a thing as a virtual CD drive in the Ports. Something that
allows you to treat an ISO image file - data or audio - as though it were a
real CD in a real drive? Like Nero ImageDrive in Windows.
TIA
Regards,
Mark
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[Igor Robul]

Post by Mark Ovens
Is there such a thing as a virtual CD drive in the Ports. Something that
allows you to treat an ISO image file - data or audio - as though it
were a real CD in a real drive? Like Nero ImageDrive in Windows.

md(4)

mdconfig -a -t vnode -f your_iso.iso

then it prints name of device (in my case md1)

then
mount_cd9660 /dev/md1 /mnt

and after you have finished
umount /mnt
mdconfig -d -u 1

[Wojciech Puchar]

Post by Mark Ovens
Is there such a thing as a virtual CD drive in the Ports. Something that

well it has virtual CD, virtual DVD, virtual floppy, virtual disk and
virtual any-block-device

man mdconfig :)

in base FreeBSD distribution.


mdconfig -a -t vnode -o readonly -f file

will show device name like md0

and /dev/md0 is your "virtual CD"