Re: [Qemu-devel] Audio cd's in guest OS

[Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>]

Lars Roland wrote:
> On 11/4/05, Mike Swanson <mikeonthecomputer@gmail.com> 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.

QEMU does not currently support reading raw CD tracks, but it is 
definitely possible to add it (along with play audio features and even 
CD recording).

Note that there is already an emulation for reading raw CD tracks 
because it is needed to boot Darwin on CDROM, but it only works on the 
data tracks of the CDROM.

Fabrice.