[Spice-devel] [spice-gtk v4 12/13] cd-sharing: implementation of new USB widget

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 06:14:58PM +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:09:56PM +0300, Yuri Benditovich wrote:
> > Use case: installing Windows 7/10 VM ( or Win 7 ) with virtio hard drive.
> > Need to share 2 ISOs (this is what users do, this allows install all the
> > drivers just
> > after OS installation). The user needs to distinguish between them in boot
> > screen.
> > See attached bitmap of boot with 2 qemu ISO images, where
> > the minimalistic gui causes the user question himself which one to select;
> > if he selects wrong one, the boot fails.
> 
> Even if making this distinction was considered a must-have feature, I
> really don't think hacking vendor/product strings would be the right way
> of addressing it. Yes it's possible to do it, but this does not mean we
> have to do it, and even less that this must be presented in the UI.

Setting vendor/product is a rather silly way to pass through cdrom
identification.  Each cdrom has a volume id, we can just use that.

https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/seabios/log/?h=cdrom

cheers,
  Gerd