<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none;"></style> </head> <body dir="ltr"> <div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;" dir="ltr"> <p>Hi Folks,</p> <p><br> </p> <p>According to the examples in <a href="http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsDisks" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk312923" previewremoved="true">http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsDisks</a> it should be possible to mount an iso /url as a cdrom, the example given is:<br> <br> </p> <div></disk><br> <disk type='network' device='cdrom'><br> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/><br> <source protocol="http" name="url_path"><br> <host name="hostname" port="80"/><br> </source><br> <target dev='hde' bus='ide' tray='open'/><br> <readonly/><br> </disk></div> <br> <p></p> I am unable to get this to work at all and wondered if I am just missing something obvious: <div><br> </div> <div> <div>Boot failed: Could not read from CDROM (code 0003)<br> <br> Actual XML in use snippet:<br> <br> <disk type='network' device='cdrom'><br> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/><br> <source protocol="http" name="/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-9.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso"><br> <host name="mirror.bytemark.co.uk" port="80"/><br> </source><br> <target dev='hdb' bus='ide' tray='open'/><br> <readonly/><br> </disk><br> libvirtd (libvirt) 3.9.0 QEMU emulator version 2.10.0<br> <br> Is anyone able to offer any assistance or tips?<br> <br> I have tried putting the complete path including fqdn in the url_path as well, with and without http://</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Many Thanks.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Anthony.</div> <br> </div> </div> </body> </html>