Re: [Qemu-devel] Audio cd's in guest OS

[Jens Axboe]

On Sat, Nov 05 2005, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> Lars Roland wrote:
> >On 11/4/05, Mike Swanson <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >>I've found on systems where traditional rippers don't work (eg,
> >>cdparanoia), CDFS has a greater chance of ripping the CDs (by default
> >>into WAV, but you can enable an option to rip it in the pure CDDA
> >>format if you want).
> >
> >
> >Thanks - I should have known that someone had made a file system for
> >this. However I still think it would be great to be able to pass the
> >actual /dev/cdrom on to the guest OS, but I must admit that I have not
> >grasped the complexity yet on doing this, so I am going to do some
> >Qemu code reading before continuing - I am not even sure if it can be
> >done in VMWare although I  seam to remember that Windows as a host OS
> >running VMWare allows the guest access to a audio cdrom.
> 
> QEMU does not currently support reading raw CD tracks, but it is 
> definitely possible to add it (along with play audio features and even 
> CD recording).

I actually implemented the commands needed for recording some months
ago, but never really wrapped it up and submitted it. If there's any
interesting in this, I'll dust it off when I have some spare time.

-- 
Jens Axboe