[ovirt-users] vm install via iso - optical drive eject behaviour?

[Omer Frenkel]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Omer Frenkel" <ofrenkel at redhat.com>
> To: "Jorick Astrego" <j.astrego at netbulae.eu>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 2:16:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] vm install via iso - optical drive	eject	behaviour?
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jorick Astrego" <j.astrego at netbulae.eu>
> > To: users at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 12:53:56 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] vm install via iso - optical drive eject
> > 	behaviour?
> > 
> > 
> > On 08/20/2014 11:21 AM, Omer Frenkel wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > From: "Paul Jansen" <vlaero at yahoo.com.au> To: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> > Sent:
> > Tuesday, August 19, 2014 2:25:41 PM
> > Subject: [ovirt-users] vm install via iso - optical drive eject behaviour?
> > 
> > Hello.
> > I currently have oVirt 3.4.x set up.
> > A colleague mentioned that he was having an issue where booting a VM with
> > an
> > attached iso and installing via cd/dvd does not allow the contents of the
> > 'drive' to eject after the install. Sure enough, I have tested this myself
> > and observed the same behaviour.
> > Installing an EL/fedora iso image with a kickstart that has a 'reboot
> > --eject' line in will eject the 'drive' after the installing when doing the
> > exact same thing on VMware ESXi (and 'real' hardware).
> > A suggestion was made that VMware emulates a laptop style optical drive
> > that
> > once the disk ejects the system cannot close the drive bay upon reboot -
> > this is a manual operation.
> > Does oVirt emulate a destop style drive where even if the disk is ejected,
> > when a reboot occurs the drive will close?
> > 
> > The long an short of this that even though the 'reboot --eject' option is
> > in
> > the kickstart, the iso image seems be be reattached when the VM reboots and
> > the installs process starts again. An infinite loop effectively.
> > 
> > I'm told this isn't an issue with an KVM/Qemu VM under virt-manager.
> > 
> > Any suggestions as to how to solve this?
> > I should point out that I cannot simply extract files and boot via PXE as
> > this process is supposed to be testing an install process via generated
> > media.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > there is an open RFE for detecting the reboot and eject the cd in run once.
> > 
> > until that, what i do is: (assuming the HD doesn't have anything bootable
> > on
> > it)
> > edit the vm,
> > select in 'boot options':
> >  first device- hard disk,
> >  second device-CD and select the CD file you want to use.
> > 
> > start the vm regularly (not run once)
> > Does this work for you?
> > 
> 
> interesting, i just installed one vm and it worked for me yesterday,
> and i tried again now couple of times (to be sure) and i see the same issue.
> 
> trying to investigate now what is the difference
> 

ok found the issue, there is a bug in add disk that cause the boot order to be wrong (order is calculated before the disk is added).
looks like this affects vms created from blank (or other diskless) template and the disk is added afterwards
while this is fixed, a workaround is to first create the vm and the disk,
and only after that, edit the vm and choose the wanted boot options, this will cause the boot order to be re-calculated, taking into account also the disk.

if your vm already created, you can edit the boot order to something and then return it to what you like.

> > In 3.5rc1, I have the following issue:
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1131018
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Description of problem:
> > Installing a VM with the Second Boot device CDROM. After installation, I
> > choose reboot in the VM and the installer of the CDROM appears again even
> > though I have the HDD as first boot device.
> > 
> > When I power down the VM, don't change anything, and power it up again. It
> > does start from the local HDD
> > Kind regards,
> > 
> > Jorick Astrego
> > Netbulae
> > 
> > 
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