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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

      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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