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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users(a)ovirt.org >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > 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.