In Linux, you can directly mount the virtual Optical Drive.
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Ubuntu Linux does not require us to install the virtual optical drive software. It can be easily done with simple Mount commands without additional downloads. For example, to use a virtual file. ISO file, run the following command on the command line:
First, create a folder for storing the ISO file. We have created this folder/Media/ISO
Sudo mkdir/Media/ISO
Mount file. ISO:
Sudo mount file. ISO/Media/ISO/-T iso9660-o loop
Now we can see the file. ISO file in/Media/ISO.
To uninstall the image file. ISO, run the following command:
Sudo umount/Media/ISO/
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After an afternoon, I found that the above method was not feasible and always prompted that the format was incorrect.
So I searched for the loop device and the virtual optical drive on the Forum and Google.
Find inspiration from a post about RedHat hard drive installation
The following are your solutions:
first
sudo losetup-D/dev/loop *
* indicates the number of loop devices
you can use sudo losetup-F to find the first available loop device
the following uses loop0 as an example, to load/homeoem/amule/bsci_a.iso to/home/OEM/bcmsn_a/:
sudo losetup-D/dev/loop0
sudo losetup/dev/loop0/home/OEM/amule/bsci_a.iso
sudo Mount/dev/loop0/home/OEM/bcmsn_a/
as long as there are enough loop devices, you can keep working on it.