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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] real cdrom access failure
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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:
>>
>>> 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
>>
>>    $ diskutil list
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Alex
>>
>
> 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