Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu 20061102 snapshot: trouble booting directly from cdrom device

[Juergen Lock]

In article <address@hidden> you write:
>--- Juergen Lock <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 01:58:43PM +0100, I wrote:
>> > Hi!
>> > 
>> >  I got a report yesterday of the win2k cd bsod'ing with an
>> > INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error when booted directly from the
>> device
>> > (as opposed to from an iso, which worked.)  
>
>I beg your pardon, but what's the point of snapshotting a read-only
>image? I thought it made sense only for hard drive images.

Oh I'm not snapshotting :)  I'm talking about doing
        qemu -cdrom some.iso ...
vs
        qemu -cdrom /dev/acd0 ...
with the iso burned as a disc in the drive. (which is what some
ppl do instead of making an iso of some disc they got, like a
windows cd...)

 I hope its more clear now,
        Juergen