How to mount a CD with QNX on a virtual machine

Question

I'm trying to mount an iso image on my Virtual Machine running QNX.

How do I do this?

I'm using VMWare Player. I've loaded the iso file under player > removable devices > cd/dvd > settings, but I can't find it in my QNX file system.

I'm new to QNX, and to Linux to which it is similar, but I've been able to find most of the Linux commands I will need. However, unless I can find the name of the cd drive, I can't mount it.

QNX is not "based off Linux", it's like Linux a Unix alike OS. Fyi, QNX is *older* than Linux. — fvu, Oct 08 '15 at 23:45
http://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/660/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.qnx.doc.neutrino.user_guide%2Ftopic%2Fhardware_CDROM_DVD.html — fvu, Oct 08 '15 at 23:46
@robbmj nope, just using QNX for a project (although I am a co-op student) — GreySage, Oct 19 '15 at 16:21

Dmitry Tabakov · Answer 1 · 2015-10-09T20:42:10.290

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If you use default QNX image then CD-ROM driver does not run automatically. There are two ways for use CD-ROM depending on bus: IDE and SATA. But for iso image, I mean not for use host CD-ROM, you can change the bus of CD-ROM device to IDE and then do these actions:

Run the driver by
```
devb-eide cdrom
```
Mount your CD-ROM device by
```
mount -t cd /dev/cd0 /cd
```

edited Oct 09 '15 at 20:42

answered Oct 09 '15 at 13:29

Dmitry Tabakov

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What does the -tcd option do? I also can't cd into the directory, although it claims to mount successfully. – GreySage Oct 09 '15 at 18:37
@GreySage, -tcd option means filesystem type = "cd", read **-t cd**. See `sloginfo` for investigation, there are many ways what this can be. – Dmitry Tabakov Oct 09 '15 at 20:39

How to mount a CD with QNX on a virtual machine

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