On Saturday 09 September 2006 21:04, Peter Gordon wrote: > Jack Gates wrote: > > The quest is started and there is an icon for > > a cdrom but there does not seem to be any connection to either of > > my physical cdrom drives. > > You need to specify which device to use for the virtual CD-ROM > using the "-cdrom" option. It can be a device node (such as > /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 or /dev/hda or similar) or a path to an ISO file > (such as ~/ISOs/FC5-x86-installer.iso or similar). > > E.g.: > > $ qemu -hda guest.img -cdrom /dev/dvd > $ qemy -hda guest.img -cdrom ~/ISOs/FC5-x86-DVD.iso -boot d > > ...etc. Hope that helps! I tried that with qemu -hda c.img -cdrom /dev/cdrom0 -m 512 -soundhw all -localtime -usb -usbdevice tablet -cdrom /dev/cdrom1 -cdrom /dev/cdrom -cdrom /dev/hdc -cdrom /media/cdrom -cdrom /media/cdrom0 -cdrom /media/cdrom1 -cdrom /media/hdc all I got each time was qemu: could not open hard disk image '/dev/cdrom0' -- Jack Gates http://www.morningstarcom.net
