Re: [Qemu-ppc] real cdrom access failure

[Programmingkid]

On Jun 9, 2013, at 12:34 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:

> 
> On 09.06.2013, at 18:28, Programmingkid wrote:
> 
>> I am trying to access the cdrom drive in QEMU 1.5.0, but can't. This is the 
>> error I see: qemu-system-ppc: -cdrom /dev/cdrom: could not open disk image 
>> /dev/cdrom: No such file or directory. I think this is a bug with version 
>> 1.5.0 on Mac OS X. Anybody else notice this problem?
> 
> Mac OS X doesn't provide a /dev/cdrom link. You have to point it directly to 
> the target device. To get a list of available devices, try
> 
>   $ diskutil list
> 
> Also make sure that all partitions and file systems on top of the CD-ROM are 
> unmounted (diskutil unmount or just umount), as OSX won't allow direct access 
> to /dev/disk1 otherwise.
> 
> 
> Alex
> 


The -cdrom /dev/cdrom option always worked in the past. Just not with version 
1.5.0.