CDemu
“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 drive-controller libmirage which is a software library for interpreting optical disc images a daemon which emulates the functionality of an 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.
It is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 or later.
To learn more about each of the packages comprising the project, please visit their corresponding pages, listed under 'Packages' section on the menu[…]”
https://cdemu.sourceforge.io/about/ https://launchpad.net/~cdemu/+archive/ubuntu/ppa https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/CDEmu/