Re: How to enable a SCSI CD-ROM ?

[Thomas Schmitt]

Hi,

> For example, you could boot a GNU/Linux system, and figure out which SCSI
> devices exactly are provided.

I did. RIPLinux-9.3-non-X.iso as emulated IDE CD-ROM boots with
64 bit kernel. An additionally emulated SCSI CD-ROM
  -drive file=/dvdbuffer/netinst.iso,if=scsi,bus=4,unit=0,media=cdrom
appears as /dev/sr0 and is readable.
The emulated IDE CD-ROM appears as /dev/hdc.


> > The message about CD-ROM at hd2 comes even if i submit no -cdrom to kvm.

> Yes, in my understanding, that equals an empty CD-ROM tray.  The -cdrom
> option specifies the image to use; if none, the tray is empty.

Matches the observations.
(I would rather have expected no CD-ROM drive instead of no media.)


> > This seems to have no case that matches device name "sr".

> This should be fixed as soon as you got this working.

Actually i hoped to learn from a working sr.c.
It has similar needs as libburn and could probably do most of the
job of transporting SCSI commands.

Well, ok, there is still ide-cd.c working. So i can at least test the
ATAPI twig of the new function. (As soon as there is something to test.)


Have a nice day :)

Thomas