From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Programmingkid <programmingkidx@gmail.com>, John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Qemu-block <qemu-block@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU being able to use audio cdroms
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 11:11:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5667FE5D.90307@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8C38DBED-8AFB-49A9-ABC7-EC41C58E1D78@gmail.com>
On 08/12/2015 20:00, Programmingkid wrote:
> > I haven't tested it, nobody has ever asked. I wouldn't reject patches
> > for such a feature, but I likely wouldn't make reviewing them a priority
> > either.
> >
> > I assume this would be primarily for emulating games/etc that use mixed
> > Data/Audio formats?
>
> That could be one reason to do it. I just thought it would be neat to be able to play CDs inside a guest.
It might work if you use a SCSI controller and "-device scsi-generic".
At least I could burn CDs a few years ago.
Of course, the audio would come directly out of the computer speakers,
without going through QEMU's backends.
Paolo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-09 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-25 20:44 [Qemu-devel] QEMU being able to use audio cdroms Programmingkid
2015-12-08 18:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " John Snow
2015-12-08 19:00 ` Programmingkid
2015-12-09 9:02 ` Victor Toso
2015-12-09 10:11 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
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