Re: [Users] Physical CDROM access
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 09:58:15AM +0200, Itamar Heim wrote:
On 12/13/2013 09:15 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote:
>Hi,
>
>With VMware ESX, when you edit the CD device you have of course the
>option of attaching an ISO, but IIRC you also have the option of
>selecting the physical CDROM device for the Host.
>
>There seems no way to do this with oVirt. It would be a really nice
>addition to the "Change CD" menu to have something like
"/dev/cdrom". Is
>there a technical issue preventing this? Of course that would prevent VM
>migration such as HA while the CDROM device is attached, but that didn't
>stop VMware and it would be a valuable addition.
>
>Thanks,
> Bob
>
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1. at some point i hope spice will allow this to connect remote
cd-rom's and install from them.
2. please open an RFE (bugzilla) to track this.
3. you can use a custom hook for this - an adaption on hostusb, or
maybe even vmdisk would work. if you need help with the custom hook,
just ping back on the list.
I think Bob asked to access the /dev/cdrom device of the host machine,
not the one of the spice client.
Bob, if that's the case, I think you can do it by circomventing Engine
and calling `vdsClient -s <host> changeCD /dev/cdrom`; please try it
out.