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From: Gerry Reno <greno@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: KVM-74: HELP PLEASE - cannot boot from cdrom for recovery
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:33:08 -0400
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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