From: Gerry Reno <greno@verizon.net>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: KVM-74: HELP PLEASE - cannot boot from cdrom for recovery
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:33:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49D261E4.4010607@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49D26001.90909@wpkg.org>
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Gerry Reno schrieb:
>
>>> What does:
>>>
>>> md5sum /dev/sr0
>>>
>>> output?
>>>
>>>
>> DVD is Fedora 10 DVD (i386)
>>
>> Four cases:
>>
>> # desktop user; DVD unmounted
>> $ md5sum /dev/sr0
>> md5sum: /dev/sr0: Input/output error
>>
>> # desktop user; DVD mounted
>> $ md5sum /dev/sr0
>> ff311b322c894aabc4361c4e270f5a3f /dev/sr0
>
> Download the iso file to your disk and point kvm there.
>
> It's the easiest to do; your problem is not really kvm-specific.
>
>
I'll try that but it seems as though the process being owned by root is
preventing the access to the cdrom. So isn't that kvm? Does libvirt
know this? I mean never once have we been able to use the cdrom from
the VM. Not just for this problem. This seems to be some kind of
access problem.
Regards,
Gerry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-31 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-31 14:58 KVM-74: HELP PLEASE - cannot boot from cdrom for recovery Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 15:00 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-31 15:08 ` Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 15:10 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-31 15:18 ` Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 15:50 ` Charles Duffy
2009-03-31 15:55 ` Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 16:13 ` Charles Duffy
2009-03-31 17:01 ` Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 17:05 ` Javier Guerra
2009-03-31 17:22 ` Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 17:31 ` Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 18:03 ` Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 18:05 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-31 18:22 ` Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 18:25 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-31 18:33 ` Gerry Reno [this message]
2009-03-31 18:53 ` Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 19:11 ` Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 19:12 ` Javier Guerra
2009-03-31 19:13 ` Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 19:27 ` Javier Guerra
2009-03-31 22:52 ` Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 22:59 ` Javier Guerra
2009-03-31 23:16 ` Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 23:33 ` Gerry Reno
2009-03-31 23:41 ` Gerry Reno
2009-04-01 0:06 ` Brian Jackson
2009-04-01 0:08 ` Brian Jackson
2009-03-31 17:07 ` Charles Duffy
2009-03-31 17:10 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
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