Is there a way for the tools to provide a configured cdrom as cdrom to the temporary guest? Right now both disk and cdrom retrived from libvirt will showup as disks in the temporary guest.

This happens for bus ide and scsi. It seems on my test system the guest can not start from a scsi disk, but the scsi cdrom appears as scsi cdrom in the guest. So I think its maybe just a matter of generating '<disk type='file' device='cdrom'>' instead of '<disk type='file' device='disk'>'? I'm using this command, which works ok for me: virt-rescue -v -c qemu+ssh:///system -d opensuse12 -r

On Fri, Oct 12, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > virt-rescue should come up with the disk and CD-ROM as /dev/sda and > /dev/sdb respectively. This should be enough to read the data off the > CD (/dev/sdb). What else would you want to do? I have not tried it, but I can imagine the following can happen: Depending on the order of devices a disk may come after the first cdrom. So a disk 'sdb' in the guest may become 'sdc' in the guest. If one does a chroot into the guest to do some fixup _and_ if something within that guest is configured to use kernel device names (like sdb) instead of LABEL/UUID then failures can occur. So its just about providing some correctness in virt-rescue.