Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU and REAL media (CD's, DVD's, floppies)

[Emre Ersin]

> Simple:
>
> qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom -fda /dev/fd0
>
> You need read/write permisions to the cdrom/floppy devices (in Debian,
> it means add your user to groups "cdrom" and "floppy".
>
>  
It doesn't work. Because qemu tries to open them at startup and if there is no media it will simply give error. One way is showing some dummy images at startup and changing after boot.