Re: KVM-74: HELP PLEASE - cannot boot from cdrom for recovery

Gerry Reno
2009-03-31T18:33:20Z

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