----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Jansen" <[email protected]> > To: "users" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 2:25:41 PM > Subject: [ovirt-users] vm install via iso - optical drive eject behaviour? > > Hello. > I currently have oVirt 3.4.x set up. > A colleague mentioned that he was having an issue where booting a VM with an > attached iso and installing via cd/dvd does not allow the contents of the > 'drive' to eject after the install. Sure enough, I have tested this myself > and observed the same behaviour. > Installing an EL/fedora iso image with a kickstart that has a 'reboot > --eject' line in will eject the 'drive' after the installing when doing the > exact same thing on VMware ESXi (and 'real' hardware). > A suggestion was made that VMware emulates a laptop style optical drive that > once the disk ejects the system cannot close the drive bay upon reboot - > this is a manual operation. > Does oVirt emulate a destop style drive where even if the disk is ejected, > when a reboot occurs the drive will close? > > The long an short of this that even though the 'reboot --eject' option is in > the kickstart, the iso image seems be be reattached when the VM reboots and > the installs process starts again. An infinite loop effectively. > > I'm told this isn't an issue with an KVM/Qemu VM under virt-manager. > > Any suggestions as to how to solve this? > I should point out that I cannot simply extract files and boot via PXE as > this process is supposed to be testing an install process via generated > media. > > Thanks.
there is an open RFE for detecting the reboot and eject the cd in run once. until that, what i do is: (assuming the HD doesn't have anything bootable on it) edit the vm, select in 'boot options': first device- hard disk, second device-CD and select the CD file you want to use. start the vm regularly (not run once) > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
