[virt-tools-list] Cant access Cd drive during boot

[Eric Blake]

On 11/16/2011 05:36 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> I have changed the boot options to allow for boot from CD but
>> still no luck. I want to access the guest in monitor mode
>> (Ctrl-Alt-2) but for the life of me have not been able to make this
>> work, any ideas?
> 
> The monitor is explicitly *not* available from libvirt.  It would be a
> huge security hole for us to allow any user to just switch over to the
> monitor and start typing any monitor commands.

That's not entirely true.  Modern libvirt has 'virsh
qemu-monitor-command domain command...' which lets you type arbitrary
monitor commands.  But that command is explicitly unsupported - while it
is generally safe to use for query-only commands, it definitely causes
problems if you do a monitor command that affects qemu state behind
libvirt's back.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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