Re: [ovirt-users] VMs imported from libvirt have no cdrom device

On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 1:17 PM, Chris Boot <bootc(a)bootc.net <mailto:bootc@bootc.net>> wrote: Hi, I've imported a number of VMs that I previously was running under a self-hosted libvirt configuration. Most of the VMs at the source did not have a cdrom device (but some did) because I just added one as I needed to. Now that the VMs have been imported into oVirt, none of them have a cdrom device. Even booting with the "Attach CD" option doesn't create a cdrom device. I can't see any way to get oVirt to re-create the missing device. Is there a way for me to add these missing devices to my VMs? Unfortunately there is no supported way of doing that. In oVirt, we add a cd-rom device for every VM during its creation and don't enable to add or remove a cd-rom. If no cd-rom device is added by default during import from libvirt then that's a bug, could you please file a bug on that (https://bugzilla.redhat.com) ?

However, you can resolve it in a hacky way by modifying the database directly: insert into vm_device (device_id, vm_id, type, device, is_managed, is_plugged, is_readonly, address) values (uuid_generate_v1(), (select vm_guid from vm_static where vm_name='your-vm-name'), 'disk', 'cdrom', 't', 't', 't', '');