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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