On Monday, 28 August 2006 10:08 PM (AEST) MÃguel wrote: >> What about something like -hdX test.iso,hw=cdrom with default hw being disk? > >And why not a shorted and more standard solution? > >-ideN [hd:|cd:]filename > >Examples: > >-ide0 /tmp/myimage.dsk >Set primary master as harddisk (hd: is the default) > >-ide1 hd:/tmp/myimage.dsk >Set primary slave as harddisk (hd: is not necessary in this case, as >it's the default). > >-ide3 cd:/dev/cdrom >Set secondary slave as cdrom using device /dev/cdrom > >-ide0 cd:/tmp/myimage.iso >Set primary master as cdrom using an ISO image file. > >Of course, the previous parameters (hda, hdb, hdc, hdd and cdrom) >should be also available for compatibility reasons. > >And you could also add -fd0 (for -fda) and -fd1(for -fdb) for >consistency with the rest of parameters. > >Just my two cents.
And what about non-PC guest environments like Sparcs where there are no IDE drives, only SCSI ones for hard disk, CD and (I think) for floppy drives ? How would you expand that syntax ? Not everyone running QEMU is seeking to run a "PC in PC" configurations. Cheers Jason _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
