CDemu is a software suite designed to emulate an optical drive and disc (including CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs) on the Linux operating system.
CDEmu consists of:
- a kernel module implementing a virtual SCSI host bus adapter,
- libmirage which is a software library for interpreting optical disc images,
- a daemon which emulates the functionality of a SCSI optical drive+disc,
- textmode and GTK clients for controlling the emulator.
Optical media emulated by CDemu can be mounted within Linux. Automounting is also allowed.
The files for the current version can be found at the project's website.
History
CDemu was originally designed by a group of friends (Robert Penz and Justus Schwartz) as a patch for MPlayer that allowed mounting .CUE/.BIN files. After the patch was completed, they realized the simplicity, and wrote a module for the kernel.
Originally, CDemu was named Virtual CD, but this name had been previously trademarked, and the owners of the trademark requested that they not use the name.
As of June, 2007, development on CDemu 0.8 ceased and a rewrite was developed instead. Most of this work was done by Rok Mandeljc. This new version of CDEmu took another approach to the emulation by doing as much as possible in userspace. As of June 2008 it is considered to be mostly stable.
Status
As of version 2.0.0 CDEmu supports the following image formats:
- Alcohol 120% .mds/.mdx format,
- Apple Disk Image .dmg/.cdr format,
- Blindwrite .b5t/.b6t format,
- Compressed ISO .cso format,
- Clone CD's .ccd/.sub/.img format,
- CDRWin's .cue/.bin format,
- cdrdao's .toc/.bin format,
- DiscJuggler's .cdi format,
- Easy CD Creator .cif format,
- Roxio / WinOnCD .c2d format,
- Error Code Modeller .ecm container format,
- gBurner .gbi format,
- GZip .gz container format,
- ISO-9660 .iso format,
- Nero Burning ROM's .nrg format,
- PowerISO .daa format,
- ReadCD's .toc/.bin format,
- UltraISO's .isz format,
- UDF .udf format,
- X-CD-Roast .toc/.bin format,
- Xz .xz container format.
Most of MMC-3 is supported, which means proper emulation of a SCSI optical drive.
CDemu has the support for CD subchannels, CD-Text, ISRC，MCN and ECC/EDC, DPM/RMPS. There is also some support for a limited number of encrypted and compressed image formats.
The developers are working on supporting as many major formats as they can, and they encourage users to submit patches to this end.
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