Record on blank CD and Floppy images

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[ Xi0N ]
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Record on blank CD and Floppy images

Post by [ Xi0N ] »

I came through a problem today

Im testing some software on my Windows guest, virtualized on a linux host, and this software offered to create some bootable media, either floppy or cd/dvd.

The thing is that i am wondering now if virtualbox can take a blank image file mounted on the virtual machine, and burn any data on it........
If so, where can i get this blank medias?

Thanks!!
fixedwheel
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Re: Record on blank CD and Floppy images

Post by fixedwheel »

either floppy or cd/dvd.
floppy is easy done: attach an empty 1474560 byte file to the virtual machine

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dd if=/dev/zero of=foobar.img bs=512 count=2880
[ Xi0N ]
Posts: 90
Joined: 23. Jan 2008, 19:18
Primary OS: Linux other
VBox Version: VirtualBox+Oracle ExtPack
Guest OSses: Debian, WIndows 2000, Windows 7, Arch LINUX

Re: Record on blank CD and Floppy images

Post by [ Xi0N ] »

Ok, now, how to do for the blank cd/dvd?
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