From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EYMKS-00047c-J7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 06:35:25 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EYMKM-000471-Qs for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 06:35:22 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EYMKK-00046r-60 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 06:35:16 -0500 Received: from [213.165.64.20] (helo=mail.gmx.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EYMKK-000665-5X for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 06:35:16 -0500 Message-ID: <436C98F0.7030307@gmx.de> Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 12:35:12 +0100 From: Oliver Gerlich MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Audio cd's in guest OS References: <4ad99e050511040447t5c334aaeh51d28d1ff92bf43e@mail.gmail.com> <79bf98480511040940q789072cbrf4b1603eb2415fdd@mail.gmail.com> <4ad99e050511050208i2585817dv13ce92634e31927c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ad99e050511050208i2585817dv13ce92634e31927c@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lars Roland schrieb: > On 11/4/05, Mike Swanson wrote: > >>I've found on systems where traditional rippers don't work (eg, >>cdparanoia), CDFS has a greater chance of ripping the CDs (by default >>into WAV, but you can enable an option to rip it in the pure CDDA >>format if you want). > > > Thanks - I should have known that someone had made a file system for > this. However I still think it would be great to be able to pass the > actual /dev/cdrom on to the guest OS, but I must admit that I have not > grasped the complexity yet on doing this, so I am going to do some > Qemu code reading before continuing - I am not even sure if it can be > done in VMWare although I seam to remember that Windows as a host OS > running VMWare allows the guest access to a audio cdrom. > Not sure how VMware does that; but actually I didn't even succeed accessing /dev/cdrom on the host when an audio cd is inserted: dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/null bs=2352 count=1 dd: reading `/dev/hdc': Input/output error 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.077570 seconds (0 bytes/sec) I used a blocksize of 2352 because I've read that's the size for audio cds... It didn't work with bs=1 either. So maybe Qemu would have to access the cd drive on a lower level than via /dev/cdrom? Just my 2 cents, Oliver Gerlich -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDbJjvTFOM6DcNJ6cRAvMxAKChRu5Hs2CMtRcKdygnbKwBl5GoigCeL7XM XLYxM01N6If3A+9hCbF5wUQ= =edig -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----