[Qemu-devel] CD foler list and content won't update after eject and replace CD in winxp guest

[Qemu-devel] CD foler list and content won't update after eject and replace CD in winxp guest

[Jiff Shen]

I recently found there is an issue with CD support in qemu,
my vm guest is windows xp, qemu version 0.13.50 which is from spice git,
the vm is startup with physical CDROM attached.
If I push the eject button of CDROM device and change CD media, most
time the directory list won't update in vm. (eject in winxp works)
I guess it's because the vm cannot receive the eject event from the
device, is this a known issue or has it already been fixed?

thanks

Re: [Qemu-devel] CD foler list and content won't update after eject and replace CD in winxp guest

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 10/10/2011 06:26 AM, Jiff Shen wrote:
> I recently found there is an issue with CD support in qemu,
> my vm guest is windows xp, qemu version 0.13.50 which is from spice git,
> the vm is startup with physical CDROM attached.
> If I push the eject button of CDROM device and change CD media, most
> time the directory list won't update in vm. (eject in winxp works)
> I guess it's because the vm cannot receive the eject event from the
> device, is this a known issue or has it already been fixed?

It is possible that it has been fixed very recently.  Markus Armbruster
did a lot of improvements to the handling of CD-ROM media.  However, I
am not sure whether it works with a physical CD-ROM device being
"passed" to the guest.

Paolo

Re: [Qemu-devel] CD foler list and content won't update after eject and replace CD in winxp guest

[Markus Armbruster]

Jiff Shen <m3l3m01t@gmail.com> writes:

> I recently found there is an issue with CD support in qemu,
> my vm guest is windows xp, qemu version 0.13.50 which is from spice git,
> the vm is startup with physical CDROM attached.
> If I push the eject button of CDROM device and change CD media, most
> time the directory list won't update in vm. (eject in winxp works)
> I guess it's because the vm cannot receive the eject event from the
> device, is this a known issue or has it already been fixed?

We fixed quite a few CD-ROM bugs since then.  Can't tell whether yours
is among them, but you could: test with the current version.

If you got your QEMU as part of a Linux distribution, many later fixes
may have been applied to it already, but you need to talk to the maker
of the distribution.