Description of feature: It looks interesting to add support to create new GuestOS to boot off from Live media. Perhaps new option can be added to "Choosing installation method" window: () Live Media (USB, ISO image or CDROM) <==NEW () Local install media (ISO image or CDROM) () Network install tree (HTTP, FTP or NFS) () Network boot (PXE) This option then takes the user to quickly choose to boot from the target device/file for Live media. Currently a work around is required to crash the GuestOS on first run and then boot from "Hard Disk" within virt-manager.
We're about to start major UI on the guest creation wizard and LiveCD is definitely on the the feature list. We'll leave this open to track - the USB idea is good too, particularly since we can add USB disks to QEMU/KVM guests now too.
Thanks, Also the same feature can also add support for "pre-existing GuestOS image/disk" etc. Please let me know if I should explain this other use-case. Kevin
*** Bug 464379 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 969118 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Given the age of this feature request, and that the new VM wizard has been stable for a long while, I don't want to add any specific 'livecd' option nowadays. I think people have managed so far. There's also the issue that livecds are often used for install now as well, so persistently booting off cdrom may not be what is intended. When we integrate libosinfo, maybe we can use its media detection to offer some different behavior if we detect a livecd, but we should track that here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459779