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From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
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Subject: Re: qemu cd-rom emulation question
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In article <20070213015439.H64316@odysseus.silby.com> you write:
>Does anyone know if it's possible to convince qemu to emulate the virtual 
>cd-rom as the slave device on the primary channel rather than as the 
>master device on the secondary channel?

Not without patching qemu, no.  (FWIW, the -disk patch, which has been
backed out in the meantime in the qemu source, made the cdrom appear as
primary master, but caused linux guests to hang when adding an ide disk...)

	Juergen