qemu access to the native CD-ROM on f8?
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Mon Jan 21 19:23:35 UTC 2008
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Andras Simon wrote:
> On 1/21/08, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >
> > i'm sure i'm screwing up something simple but i'm trying to use the
> > basic qemu PC system emulator and the linux image
> > "linux-0.2.img[.bz2]" here:
> >
> > http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/download.html
> >
> > to access my native CD-ROM.
> >
> > it's a piece of cake to invoke the emulator thusly:
> >
> > $ qemu linux-0.2.img
> >
> > and i can even see a reference to the "QEMU CD-ROM" go blazing by
> > during the boot process. but after that ... nothing.
> >
> > the online qemu docs here:
> >
> > http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-doc.html#SEC20
> >
> > *seem* to suggest that i should simply have access automatically via
> > the device file /dev/cdrom, but the qemu session has no such file.
> >
> > and the situation on the host system:
> >
> > $ ls -l /dev/{cdrom,scd0,sr0}
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2008-01-18 08:56 /dev/cdrom -> sr0
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2008-01-18 08:56 /dev/scd0 -> sr0
> > brw-rw-rw-+ 1 root disk 11, 0 2008-01-18 08:56 /dev/sr0
> > $
> >
> > so i certainly seem to have sufficient device files on the host, and
> > the actual device file has world R/W access. thoughts?
>
> I think you should start qemu with
>
> qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom linux-0.2.img
i've tried that, and every variation of that i could think of
(/dev/sr0, /dev/scd0). but, as i said earlier, i don't think the
"-cdrom" option is for assigning devices, i think it's for associating
*image files* with devices. in any event, the above still doesn't
show me an available CD device from within QEMU.
i'm wondering if it's related to the *type* of optical device -- this
is a dual-layer DVD burner. would that somehow make it unrecognizable
as a simple CD device? has *anyone* done this and got it to see the
CD device?
rday
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Robert P. J. Day
Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry
Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Home page: http://crashcourse.ca
Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook
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