[et-mgmt-tools] Re: About keeping the cdrom in the permanent XMLfor a guest after install

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 07:58:53PM +0900, Nobuhiro Itou wrote:
> Hi, Hugh and Dan
> 
> > > Hi there.
> > > 
> > > I still prefer the idea of leaving the CDROM mounted because the 
> > > heuristic we use to determine if a Windows guest is being installed is a 
> > > big hack, and because we don't use that code at all in virt-manager and 
> > > I would like the cdrom to stay mounted by default in virt-manager 
> > > installs as well.
> > > 
> > > However, if the earlier behavior is useful to anyone, I'd be happy to 
> > > take a patch for a virtinst argument that would direct virtinst not to 
> > > include the cdrom device in the post-install guest description.
> > 
> > How about leaving the CDROM device itself always attached, but not having
> > any file (media) associated with it. That would keep the simplicity of
> > always doing the same config for all OS, while still allowing people to
> > use  'xm block-configure' for Windows guests to add the CDROM again.
> 
> The above-mentioned idea just corresponds to the state before correction.
> Although Windows may be unique compared with other OS's,
> the user can enough continue installation by using xm block-configure.

Ok, I put this change back to the way it was before. So all guests get a
CDROM device permanently attached, but with no media loaded after install.
The Windows exception is of course still there.

Dan.
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