On Sep 26, 2015, at 1:45 AM, Namsun Ch'o wrote: >> Add a menu item to the Machine menu called "Use Real CDROM". It gives the >> user the ability to use a real CDROM with QEMU by simply selecting a menu >> item. > >> NSASCIIStringEncoding]; >> + qmp_change_blockdev(device, "/dev/cdrom", "raw", &err); >> + handleAnyDeviceErrors(err); > > Not all systems put their CDROM in /dev/cdrom. And you can already select the > machine's real CDROM hardware by doing -cdrom /dev/cdrom (or /dev/sr0, etc). > Examples of device files for CDROMs on other systems: > > /dev/sr0 > /dev/cd0 > /dev/sdc0 > /dev/acd0c > /dev/cdrom0 > /dev/disk1s0 > /dev/scsi/sc0d > /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 > /dev/rdsk/dks0d1vh > > And of course many of the numbers here increment on systems with multiple > drives. There is seriously an insane amount of variation of the names of CDROM > drives. Don't assume that it will only be /dev/cdrom and hardcode it that way.
Actually on Mac OS X, /dev/cdrom always points to the optical drive. It is how QEMU is programmed.
