Sorry, since nobody seems to have capacity to work on this, it's unlikely that this will ever be implemented in QEMU. Thus I'm closing this as WontFix for now.
** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Won't Fix ** Changed in: libvirt (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1390520 Title: virtual machine fails to start with connected audio cd Status in QEMU: Won't Fix Status in libvirt package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in libvirt source package in Trusty: Won't Fix Bug description: when connecting a data cd with a virtual machine (IDE CDROM 1), the virtual machine starts up and the data cd is accessable (for example to install software package or drivers), but connecting an audio cd the following error appears: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- cannot read header '/dev/sr0': Input/output error Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/details.py", line 2530, in _change_config_helper func(*args) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 850, in hotplug_storage_media self.attach_device(devobj) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 798, in attach_device self._backend.attachDevice(devxml) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 493, in attachDevice if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainAttachDevice() failed', dom=self) libvirtError: cannot read header '/dev/sr0': Input/output error ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS Release: 14.04 qemu: Installiert: 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.6 Installationskandidat: 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.6 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1390520/+subscriptions