Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] QEMU being able to use audio cdroms
Hi, On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 02:00:39PM -0500, Programmingkid wrote: > > On Dec 8, 2015, at 1:49 PM, John Snow wrote: > > > > > > > On 11/25/2015 03:44 PM, Programmingkid wrote: > >> Is there any platform where a guest in QEMU can play an audio cd? If not, > >> is this a feature that you would allow into QEMU? > >> > > > > I haven't tested it, nobody has ever asked. I wouldn't reject patches > > for such a feature, but I likely wouldn't make reviewing them a priority > > either. > > > > I assume this would be primarily for emulating games/etc that use mixed > > Data/Audio formats? > > That could be one reason to do it. I just thought it would be neat to be able > to play CDs inside a guest. Yeah, I saw a demo with cd-rom redirection working, but in an older version of QEMU (1.7.2). It even has spice support. Not sure what changes are necessary to make it work upstream. You can check cdrom branches here [0] CCing Marc-Andre that sent the patches and Pavel which was working on rebasing this. [0] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~pgrunt/ cheers, Victor Toso
Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] QEMU being able to use audio cdroms
On 11/25/2015 03:44 PM, Programmingkid wrote: > Is there any platform where a guest in QEMU can play an audio cd? If not, is > this a feature that you would allow into QEMU? > I haven't tested it, nobody has ever asked. I wouldn't reject patches for such a feature, but I likely wouldn't make reviewing them a priority either. I assume this would be primarily for emulating games/etc that use mixed Data/Audio formats? --js
Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] QEMU being able to use audio cdroms
On Dec 8, 2015, at 1:49 PM, John Snow wrote: > > > On 11/25/2015 03:44 PM, Programmingkid wrote: >> Is there any platform where a guest in QEMU can play an audio cd? If not, is >> this a feature that you would allow into QEMU? >> > > I haven't tested it, nobody has ever asked. I wouldn't reject patches > for such a feature, but I likely wouldn't make reviewing them a priority > either. > > I assume this would be primarily for emulating games/etc that use mixed > Data/Audio formats? That could be one reason to do it. I just thought it would be neat to be able to play CDs inside a guest.
