[et-mgmt-tools] Question about the installation of guest OS(Windows) in virt-manager.

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 04:41:34PM +0900, Takahashi Tomohiro wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am now investigating the problem of guest OS(Windows) 
> installation on virt-manager.
> This issue is solved virt-install.
> As you know, During Windows installation, CD-ROM must re-read 
> after rebooting.
> 
> With my investing, I found following things.
> 
> at virt-manager,
> boot_xml config file is used at rebooting but NOT described 
> CD-ROM config.
> virt-install solves this problem with using install_xml.
> 
> But I cannot specify the handling at virt-manager code.
> 
> Any Idea to solve this problem.

Virt-manager ought to really keep the CDROM attached for windows
guests. The user can later explicitly detach it with the recent
created device add/remove UI in virt-manager. There is UI in 
the wizard where the user can select what type of guest is being
installed, so virt-manager could check the 'continue' flag based
on the selected OS to decide whethe rto keep the CDROM attached.

Dan.
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