Am 05.05.2011 14:38, schrieb Amit Shah: > On (Thu) 05 May 2011 [14:32:56], Kevin Wolf wrote: >> Am 05.05.2011 14:28, schrieb Amit Shah: >>> On (Tue) 03 May 2011 [10:07:27], Kevin Wolf wrote: >>>> Am 03.05.2011 09:09, schrieb Amit Shah: >>>>> On (Mon) 02 May 2011 [20:04:26], Radu Borsaru wrote: >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> (this is the third time I'm trying to post this thread; cc-ing >>>>>> virt-owner for help) >>>>> >>>>> Has made it to the list, stripping off that CC. >>>>> >>>>>> I'm using Fedora 14 with KVM/QEMU virtualization. >>>>>> I have created a XP guest that is working fine. >>>>>> However it cannot recognize the DVD-RW that I have available for the >>>>>> host. It can only mount a read-only DVD (/dev/sr0). >>>>>> If I open the details for the guest VM I cannot untick the read-only box >>>>>> that I can find under the storage options (it is grayed out). >>>>>> Is there any way I can mount this DVD as a rewritable media? >>>>> >>>>> Currently media is only exported as read-only to the guest. RW is >>>>> possible, but there's no timeframe for it yet. >>>> >>>> Shouldn't it be possible via scsi-generic? Not sure if libvirt provides >>>> an interface for that, though. >>> >>> You mean passthrough of host cdrom over the scsi layer? >> >> Yes, SCSI passthrough is what I mean. > > Might work - don't think anyone has tested that. Do > libvirt/virt-manager support that?
The qemu-devel mailing list archive suggests that this was Laurent Vivier's test case for scsi-generic, so I think at some point it has worked at least for one configuration. If libvirt/virt-manager support it was exactly my question, so I can't help with that. Kevin _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
