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A "ide-drive" device can be either a hard disk or a CD-ROM, if there is ",media=cdrom" specified for the backend, it's a CD-ROM, otherwise it's a hard disk. Upstream qemu splitted "ide-drive" into "ide-hd" and "ide-cd" since commit 1f56e32, and ",media=cdrom" is not required for ide-cd anymore. "ide-drive" is still supported for backwards compatibility, but no doubt we should go foward.
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>