Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 02:20:37 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: qemu cd-rom emulation question Message-ID: <20070305021919.S10411@odysseus.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <200702151924.l1FJOvqL041071@saturn.kn-bremen.de> References: <200702151924.l1FJOvqL041071@saturn.kn-bremen.de>
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Juergen Lock wrote: > 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 I ended up achieving what I wanted by manually patching qemu. Since it's so simple (at the source level) to change which IDE device the cd-rom shows up as, it would be really nice if there was a command line option to perform that action. Mike "Silby" Silbersack
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