This series allows creating empty IDE and SCSI CD-ROM drives by leaving out the drive=... option. At the moment, such drives are still relatively useless because you can't insert a medium at runtime yet, but we'll change the QMP commands soon to accept qdev device names instead of BlockBackend names.
Kevin Wolf (2): ide: ide-cd without drive property for empty drive scsi: scsi-cd without drive property for empty drive hw/ide/qdev.c | 20 +++++++++++++++----- hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) -- 1.8.3.1
