Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] scsi-disk: close drive on START_STOP

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 04/12/2013 05:55, Alexey Kardashevskiy ha scritto:
> Normally the user is expected to eject DVD if it is not locked by
> the guest. eject_device() makes few checks and calls bdrv_close()
> if DVD is not in use.
> 
> However it is still possible to eject DVD even if it is in use.
> For that, QEMU sets "eject requested" flag, the guest reads it, issues
> ALLOW_MEDIUM_REMOVAL(enable=1) and START_STOP(start=0). But in this case,
> bdrv_close() is not called anywhere so it remains "inserted" in QEMU's
> terms.

This is expected behavior, and matches what IDE does.

Markus, can you confirm?

Paolo