i'm sure i'm screwing up something simple but i'm trying to use the basic qemu PC system emulator and the linux image "linux-0.2.img[.bz2]" here: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/download.html to access my native CD-ROM. it's a piece of cake to invoke the emulator thusly: $ qemu linux-0.2.img and i can even see a reference to the "QEMU CD-ROM" go blazing by during the boot process. but after that ... nothing. the online qemu docs here: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-doc.html#SEC20 *seem* to suggest that i should simply have access automatically via the device file /dev/cdrom, but the qemu session has no such file. and the situation on the host system: $ ls -l /dev/{cdrom,scd0,sr0} lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2008-01-18 08:56 /dev/cdrom -> sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2008-01-18 08:56 /dev/scd0 -> sr0 brw-rw-rw-+ 1 root disk 11, 0 2008-01-18 08:56 /dev/sr0 $ so i certainly seem to have sufficient device files on the host, and the actual device file has world R/W access. thoughts? rday p.s. um ... what's with that "+" at the end of the access rights for /dev/sr0? that's a new one for me. i guess i just never noticed it before. ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================
