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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH:] FreeBSD host physical cdrom fixes


From: Juergen Lock
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH:] FreeBSD host physical cdrom fixes
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:07:26 +0100 (CET)

In article <address@hidden> you write:
>On 3/24/09, Juergen Lock <address@hidden> wrote:
>> This improves physical cdrom support on FreeBSD hosts to be almost as
>>  good as on Linux, with the only notable exception that you still need to
>>  either have the guest itself eject the disc if you want to take it
>>  out/change it, or do a change command in the monitor after taking out
>>  a disc in case a guest cannot eject it itself - otherwise the guest may
>>  continue using state (like size) of the old disc.
>>
>>   [Yes this is not perfect but still is way better than the old state of
>>  things and thus commit-worthy in my opinion.  I don't think it needs
>>  to be committed in incremental pieces, if you disagree please say so.]
>
>Thanks, applied.

Thanx!  Is anyone looking at my scsi disk/cdrom fixes/improvements series
also?
        http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-03/msg01110.html
Without it for example eject won't work on emulated scsi cdroms i.e.
you'd still have to use the monitor...

> OpenBSD also has cdio and the header shows NetBSD
>ancestry, so maybe this works for all HOST_BSD? My OpenBSD machine
>does not have a cdrom, so I can't test it.
>
 Hmm that may be possible, but I also can't test it.

        Juergen




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