On 05/05/2011 08:45 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote: > 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. >
Libvirt doesn't provide anyway to use scsi-generic AFAICT. - Cole _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
