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'''Replace optical-then-normal device firmware with internet-then-normal device firmware.''' If a standard third-party website for device-drivers emerges, it makes sense that the device-firmware should eventually begin to rely directly on that site for supplying device-driver software to the operating system. Rather than burning just the device-drivers for a recent-Windows-version into the flash-NAND, the manufacturer can burn the URL of the driver-download website into the flash-NAND, and the generic USB driver on the operating system can check the driver-search portion of the website in question, download a driver (or a driver update) based on sysadmin-configured rules when one is available, and in general make the device work automagically for almost *all* endusers, not just those running a recent-Windows-flavor. There are cases where the device-driver-search will fail, and the enduser will see an error message from their OS, informing them that stable drivers for their hardware do not yet exist. Ideally, the operating system would be smart enough to know what sort of guest-OSes it could support, and also search for device-drivers that would allow the device to function temporarily from inside a [[virtual machine]] (using USB-passthrough to permit the guest-OS to directly interface with the hardware in question which is unsupported by the original hypervisor-OS). In cases where automagic search-and-install failed, it would be helpful if the device manufacturer were to print a standard message physically on the outside of their device -- as well as in the device's user manual and product-webpage and so on -- giving the URL of the standard driver site.
== See also ==
* [[Floppy_disk_hardware_emulator]], circuit board which tricks the [[Floppy disk controller | FDC]] chip on host-PC into thinking a physical floppy drive containing a physical floppy disc is attached, when in fact flash-NAND is being used instead
* [[Virtual_drive_(disambiguation)]], for the wide variety of different sorts of [[Virtuality | 'virtual']] drives that exist
* Disk_image_emulator[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Disk_image_emulator&oldid=255125520], information has since been deleted from live wikipedia articles
* [[Disk image]], discusses virtual-(optical)-drives in general, with the emphasis on read-write virtual-burners rather than read-only virtual-CDROM-drives
* [[CDemu]], for a particular virtual-optical-drive implementation (which however runs inside a Linux OS rather than inside device-firmware)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Disk_image_emulators], other virtual-optical-drive implementations (usually OS-based mounters like CDemu)
== External links ==
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