Xen devel - Apr 2007 - CD cannot be auto mounted by Nautilus on Linux guest OS

Hello All,

Sorry to resend this email since I really want to know the answer.

Did anybody know how I could make Linux Guest OS mount CD automatically
with Nautilus? When I exposed a Music CD to my FC5 guest os on Xen
3.0.3, I found the CD wasn''t recognized as a Music CD, it was
recognized
as a blank CD. In Nautilus, when I clicked the icon of CD, a empty
folder was opened. On general linux, when user insert a Music CD, it
should be played automatically. I have checked the code of qemu, it
seems that qemu didn''t simulate CD with CD type information. I wonder
if
some people met such a problem before, and has already resolved this
issue. 

I also did some investigation on this issue, on linux guest os, system
will try to read CDIOREADTOCHEADER to detect the type of CD, but the
problem qemu cannot return right information to guest os.

Regards,
Anto


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> Did anybody know how I could make Linux Guest OS mount CD
automatically
> with Nautilus? When I exposed a Music CD to my FC5 guest os on Xen
> 3.0.3, I found the CD wasn''t recognized as a Music CD, it was
recognized
> as a blank CD. In Nautilus, when I clicked the icon of CD, a empty
> folder was opened. On general linux, when user insert a Music CD, it
> should be played automatically. I have checked the code of qemu, it
> seems that qemu didn''t simulate CD with CD type information. I
wonder
if
> some people met such a problem before, and has already resolved this
> issue.
Xen currently only supports ISO data image (CDROM) functionality on
CD/DVDs.
> I also did some investigation on this issue, on linux guest os, system
> will try to read CDIOREADTOCHEADER to detect the type of CD, but the
> problem qemu cannot return right information to guest os.
If you have a USB CD drive, you could try using the USB passthough
functionality to make the drive accessible from the guest. This is an
experimental feature in xen-unstable.

Ian

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Hello Pratt,

Thanks for your clarification, but on linux guest os, I found gnome-vfs detected
the data CD as a blank CD, so in nautilus, the CD will be recognized as a blank
CD instead of a data CD. Do you know if there is a way can be used to overcome
this issue?

Anto
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ian Pratt [mailto:Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk] 
>Sent: 2007年4月20日 6:48
>To: Xu, Shenshen; xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
>Cc: Yu, Xiaoyang; ian.pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk
>Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] CD cannot be auto mounted by Nautilus 
>on Linux guest OS
>
>> Did anybody know how I could make Linux Guest OS mount CD
>automatically
>> with Nautilus? When I exposed a Music CD to my FC5 guest os on Xen
>> 3.0.3, I found the CD wasn''t recognized as a Music CD, it was
>recognized
>> as a blank CD. In Nautilus, when I clicked the icon of CD, a empty
>> folder was opened. On general linux, when user insert a Music CD, it
>> should be played automatically. I have checked the code of qemu, it
>> seems that qemu didn''t simulate CD with CD type information. I
wonder
>if
>> some people met such a problem before, and has already resolved this
>> issue.
>
>Xen currently only supports ISO data image (CDROM) functionality on
>CD/DVDs.
>
>> I also did some investigation on this issue, on linux guest 
>os, system
>> will try to read CDIOREADTOCHEADER to detect the type of CD, but the
>> problem qemu cannot return right information to guest os.
>
>If you have a USB CD drive, you could try using the USB passthough
>functionality to make the drive accessible from the guest. This is an
>experimental feature in xen-unstable.
>
>Ian
>
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