From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Steven Hand" Subject: Re: Installing a guest from a iso Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 21:19:00 +0100 Message-ID: <06c901c6e7f2$5663a2b0$0202a8c0@Violet> References: <45240FE1.9040701@virtualiron.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Ed Smith , Xen Devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org > It's been a while since I installed a guest and I'm having trouble booting > from a cd iso. > My config to boot from a CD is from before the new QEMU was introduced. > Has the syntax > of this changed? Here is what I have in my config to boot from a CD iso > file I have > on my dom0 root. > > > #----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > # Disk image for > cdrom = '/boot/RHEL4U2-64b.boot.iso' Yeah, it changed back in August, see: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2006-08/msg00369.html or if you cannot view the archives: "Cdrom drives are now configured like disks by adding a :cdrom suffix to the target device (i.e.'file:/root/mytest.iso,hdc:cdrom,r'). Thereis no default cdrom drive any longer, to create an empty cdrom drive, use ',hdc:cdrom,r'. Any of the 4 ide devices can be cdrom drives now." cheers, S.