| Summary: | RFE: Need virtual CD-ROM device with no media attached after install complete | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Nan Zhang <nzhang> |
| Component: | python-virtinst | Assignee: | Cole Robinson <crobinso> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 6.1 | CC: | bsarathy, dyuan, hjiang, llim |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: |
Previously, virt-install could only specify cdrom and floppy devices with inserted media. Now virt-install has an option to specify empty cdrom and floppy drives.
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Story Points: | --- |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-12-06 16:16:19 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 693512 | ||
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Description
Nan Zhang
2011-03-28 06:37:19 UTC
Since RHEL 6.1 External Beta has begun, and this bug remains unresolved, it has been rejected as it is not proposed as exception or blocker. Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Feature request, deferring to 6.2 Yes this should be straight forward to do for 6.2 Upstream now: http://git.fedorahosted.org/git?p=python-virtinst.git;a=commit;h=1ebef797def83f9247a642ac1850a66aba0bef7d Fixed in python-virtinst-0.600.0-1.el6 Verified with the following components: python-virtinst-0.600.0-1.el6. libvirt-0.9.4-0rc1.el6.x86_64 kernel-2.6.32-171.el6.x86_64 qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.174.el6.x86_64 Steps: #virt-install -n demo -r 512 --disk /var/lib/libvirt/images/deme.img,device=disk,size=6 --disk device=cdrom,perms=ro -l http://download.englab.nay.redhat.com/pub/rhel/nightly/RHEL6.2-20110801.n.0/6.2/Server/x86_64/os --vnc --noreboot Starting install... Retrieving file .treeinfo... | 3.3 kB 00:00 ... Retrieving file vmlinuz... | 7.4 MB 00:00 ... Retrieving file initrd.img... | 54 MB 00:00 ... Allocating 'deme.img' | 6.0 GB 00:00 Creating domain... | 0 B 00:00 (installation succeed) #virsh dumpxml demo ... <disk type='block' device='cdrom'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/> <readonly/> <alias name='ide0-1-0'/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' unit='0'/> </disk> ...
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Previously, virt-install could only specify cdrom and floppy devices with inserted media. Now virt-install has an option to specify empty cdrom and floppy drives.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1643.html |