Okay, my first reply wasn't very helpful.
This is probably not as polished as what you'd like,
but at least it is something, as opposed to nothing. :)
# mount -t iso9660 -o loop=/dev/loop0 ~/path/to/mycd.iso /mnt/cdrom
You need loopback support in your kernel, but that's pretty common,
I think. You also need might need to be root, depends on how mount is
configured on your system, I think.
That command will make available the ~/path/to/mycd.iso
as /mnt/cdrom, just like when you mount files in /dev/.
I'm also not sure if the mounted iso image is writable,
but the above is useful for testing an iso image before burning it
to a CD.
Perhaps someone else knows a good front-end to mounting files on
the loopback device?
It should be trivial to implement a virtual cd rom this way.
Surely, someone has to have already done it, no?
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