[Libvir] Re: Virtualization things.

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 04:45:25PM +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> On Di Juli 10 2007, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 
> > Live CDs aren't really supported yet - it will boot the CD the first time,
> > but it expects you to perform an install to the disk, so on sequent boots
> > it will boot of harddisk. THis is basically the problem BZ 236782 is asking
> > to be addressed.
> 
> This is not only a problem with LiveCDs, but also when an installation fails 
> or one wants to update a system, because there is no way to change or add a 
> CD to a virtual machine, like it is possible to add another harddisk or 
> network card. Is this within the scope of BZ 236782, too?

Not entirely - related, but different issues. We need to make it possible
to add a CDROM device to an existing guest:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245205

And add ability to change CDROM media on the fly. There's a bug for this
too, but unfortunately its marked private.

Dan.
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