Howto: CDemu 0.8 for kernel 2.6.16+ (Edgy)

[jbysmith]

Brilliant, thanks for this

The one and only program I missed from Windows was Daemon-Tools for mounting image files, this comes pretty close.

[vadania]

Hello,

I'm trying to insstall CDemu 0.8 on my Ubuntu 7.04.
When I go to the extracted folder and try make, I get the following error:

[HTML][CODE]bogdan@bogdandt:/tmp/cdemu$ sudo make
/bin/sh: Syntax error: Bad fd number
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-16-generic'
/bin/sh: Syntax error: Bad fd number
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 1 modules
WARNING: "generic_file_read" [/tmp/cdemu/cdemu.ko] undefined!
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-16-generic'
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[vadania]

Hello,

I'm trying to insstall CDemu 0.8 on my Ubuntu 7.04.
When I go to the extracted folder and try make, I get the following error:

[HTML][CODE]bogdan@bogdandt:/tmp/cdemu$ sudo make
/bin/sh: Syntax error: Bad fd number
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-16-generic'
/bin/sh: Syntax error: Bad fd number
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 1 modules
WARNING: "generic_file_read" [/tmp/cdemu/cdemu.ko] undefined!
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-16-generic'
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What could this be from? How can I repair it?

[Civean]

vadania, this problem is described earlier in the thread. The problem is that the linux kernel no longer contains the command "generic_file_read". The solution is written earlier in the thread, see for example the second post at this page.

However: I strongly recommend against using CDEmu 0.8! This version contains a bug that on some systems shows corrupt data from the loaded images, rendering th program useless. This bug is described in the beginning of this thread, and renders the program totally useless except for .iso files. The developers won't fix this bug since they have remade CDEmu from the ground up, the so called "userspace-cdemu" which can be found at

http://www.kabelkaos.net/cdemu/. (Use the vhba one, this is the newest)

.deb files exist for 7.04 from this address:

http://mniess.googlepages.com/cdemuforubuntu7.04

So far I haven't been successful in making the new CDEmu work, but I know that others have. I have no idea why the developers haven't just edited the homepage to clarify the situation. Judging from the CDEmu mailing lists (found at "lists" from the CDEmu homepage) though the team are soon ready to release userspace-cdemu as CDEmu 1.0, and hopefully then end this confusion with CDEmu 0.8.

[Beholder87]

can anyone help me??? i have an error message when i try to start cdmud about: "Failed to open control device."
i posted it in another topic: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...=1#post4281068
thanks

[fermulator]

Hey great post! But unfortunately it doens't work with newer versions of CDemu.

I believe this does ...http://www.grumz.net/?q=node/307&PHP...a36c4312068358

[HAARP]

Hello, original author here. This Howto is very old. I've since moved to another distro, but I have the newer CDemu working there. I wrote a new Howto with a new set of scripts for that distro, but I'm sure it can be adapted for Ubuntu. Get it here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t...7482a455bcd9db

Have Fun!