RE: Re: [Qemu-devel] cdrom hardcoded index

[Armistead, Jason]

On Monday, 28 August 2006 10:08 PM (AEST) Míguel wrote:

>> What about something like -hdX test.iso,hw=cdrom with default hw being
disk?
>
>And why not a shorted and more standard solution?
>
>-ideN [hd:|cd:]filename
>
>Examples:
>
>-ide0 /tmp/myimage.dsk
>Set primary master as harddisk (hd: is the default)
>
>-ide1 hd:/tmp/myimage.dsk
>Set primary slave as harddisk (hd: is not necessary in this case, as
>it's the default).
>
>-ide3 cd:/dev/cdrom
>Set secondary slave as cdrom using device /dev/cdrom
>
>-ide0 cd:/tmp/myimage.iso
>Set primary master as cdrom using an ISO image file.
>
>Of course, the previous parameters (hda, hdb, hdc, hdd and cdrom)
>should be also available for compatibility reasons.
>
>And you could also add -fd0 (for -fda) and -fd1(for -fdb) for
>consistency with the rest of parameters.
>
>Just my two cents.


And what about non-PC guest environments like Sparcs where there are no IDE
drives, only SCSI ones for hard disk, CD and (I think) for floppy drives ?
How would you expand that syntax ?

Not everyone running QEMU is seeking to run a "PC in PC" configurations.

Cheers

Jason