Will the 2.1b2 DVD read issue be fixed?

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aspa

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hi

i've been having problems booting from a DVD. i noticed that there's an issue about reading DVD's on the 'Parallels Workstation 2.1 beta2 known issue' list. other issues on the list include statements like 'will be fixed' while the DVD read issue does not.

does this imply that Parallels is not going to fix this for 2.1?
 
i managed to use the following workaround to get past this issue.

1. copy the image to hard disk
cp /dev/rdisk2 mydvdimage.iso

2. map the image as a cd/dvd-rom device to guest os
Devices / CD/DVD-ROM X / Connect Image...

it would still be nice to have this fixed in the future.
 
aspa said:
i managed to use the following workaround to get past this issue.

1. copy the image to hard disk
cp /dev/rdisk2 mydvdimage.iso

2. map the image as a cd/dvd-rom device to guest os
Devices / CD/DVD-ROM X / Connect Image...

it would still be nice to have this fixed in the future.
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Are you sure this is correct ?
You cannot just copy a /dev/rdisk to a regular file because the /dev/rdisk is a handle, not a file.
You'd need to use DiskUtil and create an ISO.
 
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i'm not sure if i understand what you mean by "/dev/rdisk is a handle, not a file".

afaik, /dev/rdisk is a raw device file that represents the cd/dvd-rom media contents (in this case).

i've done this several times and it does work for me (except that the exact device file name changes. the important thing is to add an "r" after "/dev/").
 
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