Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] real cdrom access failure

[Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>]

On 06/10/2013 03:39 PM, Programmingkid wrote:
> On Jun 9, 2013, at 12:34 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
>> On 09.06.2013, at 18:28, Programmingkid wrote:
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>>> I am trying to access the cdrom drive in QEMU 1.5.0, but can't. This is the error I see: qemu-system-ppc: -cdrom /dev/cdrom: could not open disk image /dev/cdrom: No such file or directory. I think this is a bug with version 1.5.0 on Mac OS X. Anybody else notice this problem?
>> Mac OS X doesn't provide a /dev/cdrom link. You have to point it directly to the target device. To get a list of available devices, try
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>>    $ diskutil list
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>> Also make sure that all partitions and file systems on top of the CD-ROM are unmounted (diskutil unmount or just umount), as OSX won't allow direct access to /dev/disk1 otherwise.
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>> Alex
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>
> The -cdrom /dev/cdrom option always worked in the past. Just not with version 1.5.0.

Hrm. CC'ing Andreas and Peter. They're the best matches to people 
knowing their way around OSX host support :). Also Changing qemu-ppc@ to 
qemu-devel@, as this is 100% unrelated to the ppc target.


Alex