From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50754) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a6biv-00027e-As for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2015 05:11:50 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a6biu-0007TI-JJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2015 05:11:49 -0500 Sender: Paolo Bonzini References: <239A05BC-E2AD-426C-98D3-06DCEE4A3981@gmail.com> <56672640.3020301@redhat.com> <8C38DBED-8AFB-49A9-ABC7-EC41C58E1D78@gmail.com> From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <5667FE5D.90307@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 11:11:41 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8C38DBED-8AFB-49A9-ABC7-EC41C58E1D78@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU being able to use audio cdroms List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Programmingkid , John Snow Cc: Kevin Wolf , qemu-devel qemu-devel , Qemu-block 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