Re: [Qemu-devel] Raw CD-ROM and hard disk for win32

[Kazu]

Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 3:31 AM Fabrice Bellard wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I find it strange that there is no win32 API to know the size of a
> CD-ROM. Maybe a CD-ROM specific IOCTL exists ?
>

Yes, it does. An attached patch gets a size of raw CD-ROM and raw hard disk.

> About the windows device patch detection, I would like a more precise
> test than "len == 5". Testing if the filename begins with "\\.\" would
> be better. Supporting also the syntax "/dev/cdrom" would be good too.
>

It is necessary to set drive letter to use CD-ROM. When -cdrom /dev/cdrom is
set, the first CD-ROM drive is used in the patch.


Regards,
Kazu

qemu-20060809-cdrom.patch
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