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Product-related news and information about server virtualization and the Virtual Iron platform - from Chris Barclay, Director of Product Management at Virtual Iron Software.

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Mount an ISO From Within a Virtual Server

In Virtual Iron, it is easy to mount an ISO from within any of your virtual servers. In Virtual Iron, there is a feature to map ISO files into a virtual server so that they will show up as a "Virtual CD-ROM" within a running your virtual server.

To utilize this feature copy ISO files to the Virtualization Manager server and place them in the VirtualIron/nbd directory.
Windows: c:\Program Files\VirtualIron\nbd
Linux: /opt/VirtualIron/nbd

In addition to this feature, there are other tools, such as Microsoft's Virtual CD-ROM, that you can run within any virtual server that allows you to mount ISO's as a virtual device.

Virtual Servers running Linux can mount an ISO using the mount command
mount -o loop -t iso9660 filename.iso /mnt/iso

Note that ISO's can not be added or removed from a running virtual server.

See more tips and tricks in our KnowledgeBase.

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Posted by Chris B. on January 5, 2008 11:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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