Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui/cocoa.m: Add real CDROM menu item

[Programmingkid]

On Oct 13, 2015, at 4:44 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:

> On 26 September 2015 at 04:01, Programmingkid <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Add a menu item to the Machine menu called "Use Real CDROM". It gives the 
>> user
>> the ability to use a real CDROM disc with QEMU by simply selecting a menu 
>> item.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: John Arbuckle <address@hidden>
> 
> This feature is not present in any of our other UI frontends,
> and the implementation makes assumptions about the names of
> block devices in the models (ie that if it has "cd" in the name
> anywhere it's a CD). I also don't have a mac with a CD drive
> so I have no way of testing it.
> 
> I'm afraid that I think that this comes under the heading of
> "features that should be in the VM management layer, not QEMU
> itself", so I would prefer not to take it into QEMU.

Mac OS X users don't have any VM management layer. That is pretty much
a Linux-only feature. What we do have is the cocoa interface.