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From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
Subject: Re: RE : [Qemu-devel] cdrom hardcoded index
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To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> hi,
> --- drtyc@centrum.cz a =E9crit :
>=20
>=20
>>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 sing=
le 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 i=
t now it will require some
>>changes to apply...
>>
>=20
> Jim sent a patch that works beautifully,
> it adds -cdrom-[a,b,c,d] and even gives ability to have multiple cd=
rom drives.
>=20
> 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 wishi=
ng=20
to have weird hardware setups will have to use it. I am not sure it i=
s=20
necessary to complicate the command line syntax for very specific cas=
es.

Regards,

Fabrice.