VMware force CD eject

[Donk]

Hi

I have been supporting a boot-132 CD image to start Leopard and Snow Leopard under VMware. I want to use Chameleon to do this now as will fix up a few issues. What I want to do though is a small code change to call the BIOS eject function and then rescan DVD/CD drive. This will then mimic how VMware currently does it. The function is in the biosfn.c code but I can't find a good place to call it within boot2/boot.c code.

Does anyone have a pointer as to when it would be safe to virtually eject the ISO image and rescan the BIOS devices?

Thanks

[zef]

Does anyone have a pointer as to when it would be safe to virtually eject the ISO image and rescan the BIOS devices?

Hi Donk,

Open i386/boot2/options.c @line 1017:

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1017      case kF5Key:
1022         if (gEnableCDROMRescan)
1023         {
1024           gBootVolume = NULL;
1025           clearBootArgs();
1026         }
1027       break;

I would put the BIOS eject code and a prompt for asking the media in the "if" branch above.

[Donk]

Zef

Thanks for that looks like a good spot, and will give it a go. Another quickie question, there is no rule for debug builds in the makefile. Am I missing something simple here, or just not setup to build a debug version?

Donk