Bug 705922

Summary:	Add possibility to set serial= option for virtual disk drives
Product:	[Community] Virtualization Tools	Reporter:	Marc Haber <mh+redhat-bugzilla-2011>
Component:	virt-manager	Assignee:	Cole Robinson <crobinso>
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Description Marc Haber 2011-05-18 21:27:57 UTC

Hi,

recent versions of qemu-kvm allow setting the serial "number" (which is actually a string) of a virtual disk to be set from the kvm command line (just add "serial=some-string" to the -drive option of KVM. This string can then be picked up from within the guest to, for example, create a device node in /dev/disk/by-serial using udev.

Please add the possibility to set a virtual disk drive's serial number from the virt-manager GUI.

Greetings
Marc

Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2011-07-13 17:13:53 UTC

Thanks for the RFE, upstream now allows viewing and changing the disk serial number in the 'Details' window.