QEMU no cdrom ?

[Kenny Gow]

Jack Gates wrote:
> On Saturday 09 September 2006 21:04, Peter Gordon wrote:
>> Jack Gates wrote:
>>> The quest is started and there is an icon for
>>> a cdrom but there does not seem to be any connection to either of
>>> my physical cdrom drives.
>> You need to specify which device to use for the virtual CD-ROM
>> using the "-cdrom" option. It can be a device node (such as
>> /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 or /dev/hda or similar) or a path to an ISO file
>> (such as ~/ISOs/FC5-x86-installer.iso or similar).
>>
>> E.g.:
>>
>> $ qemu -hda guest.img -cdrom /dev/dvd
>> $ qemy -hda guest.img -cdrom ~/ISOs/FC5-x86-DVD.iso -boot d
>>
>> ...etc.  Hope that helps!
> 
> I tried that with
> qemu -hda c.img -cdrom /dev/cdrom0 -m 512 -soundhw 
> all -localtime -usb -usbdevice tablet
> 
> -cdrom /dev/cdrom1
> -cdrom /dev/cdrom
> -cdrom /dev/hdc
> -cdrom /media/cdrom
> -cdrom /media/cdrom0
> -cdrom /media/cdrom1
> -cdrom /media/hdc
> 
> all I got each time was
> qemu: could not open hard disk image '/dev/cdrom0'
> 
It works for me if I use -cdrom /dev/cdrom
when /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link pointing to my
actual cdrom device, /dev/hdc