Re: RE : [Qemu-devel] cdrom hardcoded index

[Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>]

Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> hi,
> --- drtyc@centrum.cz a écrit :
> 
> 
>>Hello.
>>
>>How about finally not having cdrom hardcoded? Right now installing some distro that reqires hda
>>and hdc to be active raid components and having to change that single variable initialization
>>vaue is easy but not comfortable enough with recompiling the qemu...
>>
>>Someone tried this already with qemu-flex_cd.patch but looking at it now it will require some
>>changes to apply...
>>
> 
> Jim sent a patch that works beautifully,
> it adds -cdrom-[a,b,c,d] and even gives ability to have multiple cdrom drives.
> 
> Its vl.multicdrom, and you can download it from the archives at :
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2006-04/msg00289.html

A VM configuration file will be added in QEMU very soon. People wishing 
to have weird hardware setups will have to use it. I am not sure it is 
necessary to complicate the command line syntax for very specific cases.

Regards,

Fabrice.