Jim, thanks for the patch, it seems to work great. However, I'm attaching an updated version that fixes the following [minor] problems: 1. qemu was not correctly aborting [with help] if no arguments/disk images were specified 2. using the method "qemu [options] " no longer worked... you had to specify -hda explicitly. 1 and 2 are fixed in this patch that I attached. It's also diff'ed against today's CVS, so it applies without fuzz or hunks. Like I said, these fixes are minor more than anything else - otherwise the patch works great for me so far. I've been able to do a Windows XP install with 2 CDROM images attached. That's the extent of my testing so far, but I don't see any reason why there would be any problems otherwise. Regards, Leo Reiter Jim C. Brown wrote: > On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 02:41:12PM -0400, Jim C. Brown wrote: > >>Attached is a patch that does just that. >> >>The default -cdrom still works, but you can also use -cdrom-a, -cdrom-b, -cdrom-c, and -cdrom-d to specify if the cdrom should be plugged in place over hda, hdb, hdc, or hdd respectively. >> >>Also includes a few tests to make sure you don't clobber a hard disk with a cdrom, or use the same -hdX or -cdrom-X option multiple times. > -- Leonardo E. Reiter Vice President of Product Development, CTO Win4Lin, Inc. Virtual Computing from Desktop to Data Center Main: +1 512 339 7979 Fax: +1 512 532 6501 http://www.win4lin.com