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/ _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
