Description of problem: You used to be able to specify a temporary boot device (cd, network, etc.) at runtime by hitting F12 at boot. This no longer works. There is a 'Boot options' entry in the 'details' window. It also does not work. If you want to boot from the CD, you could even try blanking the early part of the hard drive, thinking that the BIOS would fail over and boot the CD. It does not. This means that if I want to reinstall a virt machine using our UI tools, I can't just attach a new boot CD (or similar); I have to actually destroy the entire machine and recreate it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): virt-manager-0.8.3-2.fc13.noarch qemu-kvm-0.12.3-6.fc13.x86_64 libvirt-0.7.7-1.fc13.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have an installed VM 2. Decide to reinstall it 3. Attempt to do so without nuking the whole machine entry entirely Actual results: Can't do it. (At least not without magic direct qemu invocations.) Expected results: Can do it with the UI.
Changing the boot device via Details->Boot options definitely works for me: did you hit the 'apply' button to make the change stick? I have a guest with a cdrom device and a harddisk and can change the boot device at will. The F12 boot menu change was an upstream qemu default change: currently there is no way via libvirt to turn this back on, but I have half a patch cooked up to enable it. It would then be a check box in virt-manager. Can you confirm 'boot options' works? If so, we can use this bug to track boot menu support.
'Boot options' works for me with: virt-manager-0.8.3-3.fc13.noarch qemu-kvm-0.12.3-8.fc13.x86_64 libvirt-0.7.7-3.fc13.x86_64
Boot menu flag can now be set upstream: http://hg.fedorahosted.org/hg/virt-manager/rev/9620d20ecc32
virt-manager-0.8.7-1.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/virt-manager-0.8.7-1.fc14
Package virt-manager-0.8.7-1.fc14: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 14 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing virt-manager-0.8.7-1.fc14' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/virt-manager-0.8.7-1.fc14 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
virt-manager-0.8.7-2.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/virt-manager-0.8.7-2.fc14
virt-manager-0.8.7-2.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.