On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 04:13:56PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
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.
I'm not clear if this is a libvirt question or a libguestfs question? But proceeding on the basis that it's about virt-rescue ...
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
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? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/