From: john cooper <john.cooper@third-harmonic.com>
To: Stuart Jansen <sjansen@buscaluz.org>
Cc: kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, john.cooper@redhat.com
Subject: Re: changing guest CD
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 21:16:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A08CDE3.8050002@third-harmonic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1242075948.3685.32.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Stuart Jansen wrote:
> Does KVM support changing the CD in a running guest's disc drive? I've
> tried to do it using the qemu monitor, but so far haven't been able to.
> I've seen rumor and innuendo that KVM can't change the disc in a running
> system, but no official confirmation yet.
>
> If KVM doesn't support changing the disc in a running system, what would
> be required to support it?
>
The following worked for me when doing a
guest install from multiple CD iso images:
> to enter monitor from guest screen:
>
> <cntl><alt>2
>
> to exit back to guest screen:
>
> <cntl><alt>1
>
> changing a cd image:
>
> (qemu) info block
>
> <list of block devices>
>
> (qemu) eject ide1-cd0
> (qemu) change ide1-cd0 <target_file>
>
> <cntl><alt>1
--
john.cooper@third-harmonic.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-12 1:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-11 21:05 changing guest CD Stuart Jansen
2009-05-11 22:13 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-13 18:09 ` Stuart Jansen
2009-05-12 1:16 ` john cooper [this message]
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