On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 09:58:15AM +0200, Itamar Heim wrote: > On 12/13/2013 09:15 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote: > >Hi, > > > >With VMware ESX, when you edit the CD device you have of course the > >option of attaching an ISO, but IIRC you also have the option of > >selecting the physical CDROM device for the Host. > > > >There seems no way to do this with oVirt. It would be a really nice > >addition to the "Change CD" menu to have something like "/dev/cdrom". Is > >there a technical issue preventing this? Of course that would prevent VM > >migration such as HA while the CDROM device is attached, but that didn't > >stop VMware and it would be a valuable addition. > > > >Thanks, > > Bob > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Users mailing list > >Users@ovirt.org > >http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > 1. at some point i hope spice will allow this to connect remote > cd-rom's and install from them. > 2. please open an RFE (bugzilla) to track this. > 3. you can use a custom hook for this - an adaption on hostusb, or > maybe even vmdisk would work. if you need help with the custom hook, > just ping back on the list.
I think Bob asked to access the /dev/cdrom device of the host machine, not the one of the spice client. Bob, if that's the case, I think you can do it by circomventing Engine and calling `vdsClient -s <host> changeCD /dev/cdrom`; please try it out. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users