Optical media drive emulation in linux kernel

[Ian Chapman]

On 01/07/12 05:38, JD wrote:
> Does it exist?
> What about kernel add-on packages
> that would insert the pseudo-driver shim
> and the apps to use it?

I don't believe so. You probably need something like:

http://cdemu.sourceforge.net

which incidentally does work quite well but you'll need to go through 
the pain of building it yourself. There is also an iSCSI hack which lets 
you create a virtual optical device and even share that as a block 
device over the network being iSCSI. You can even burn DVDs to it, with 
the end result being an ISO, but for all intents and purposes it appears 
to be a physical optical device. I seem to remember its 
scsi-target-utils and you'll probably also want iscsi-initiator-utils to 
use it. Both of which are in Fedora.

-- 
Ian Chapman.