On Oct 13, 2015, at 4:44 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 26 September 2015 at 04:01, Programmingkid <programmingk...@gmail.com> > 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 <programmingk...@gmail.com> > > 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.