----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jorick Astrego" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 12:53:56 PM > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] vm install via iso - optical drive eject > behaviour? > > > On 08/20/2014 11:21 AM, Omer Frenkel wrote: > > > > ----- 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) > Does this work for you? >
interesting, i just installed one vm and it worked for me yesterday, and i tried again now couple of times (to be sure) and i see the same issue. trying to investigate now what is the difference > In 3.5rc1, I have the following issue: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1131018 > > > > > Description of problem: > Installing a VM with the Second Boot device CDROM. After installation, I > choose reboot in the VM and the installer of the CDROM appears again even > though I have the HDD as first boot device. > > When I power down the VM, don't change anything, and power it up again. It > does start from the local HDD > Kind regards, > > Jorick Astrego > Netbulae > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
