[virt-tools-list] virt-manager only detects one CD/DVD drive

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Sun Nov 27 18:45:16 UTC 2011


On 11/18/2011 09:19 AM, Hansa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> When creating a VM virt-manager detects only one CD/DVD drive.
> 
>  
> 
> Here’s (part) of my /etc/fstab:
> 
> # cat /etc/fstab
> 
> /dev/scd1       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
> 
> /dev/scd0       /media/cdrom1   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
> 
> /dev/scd1       /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
> 
>  
> 
>                 # ls -la /dev/scd*
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 18 14:38 /dev/scd0 -> sr0
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 18 14:47 /dev/scd1 -> sr1
> 
>  
> 
> As you can see I have two cdrom devices but virt-manager only lets me choose
> /dev/sr0.
> 
> How do I add /dev/sr1 device to virt-manager?
> 

virt-manager shouldn't have any problem with multiple cdrom devices, could be
that libvirt isn't giving us the expected info.

Any reference to /dev/sr1 in the output of the following command?

for i in `sudo virsh nodedev-list`; do sudo virsh nodedev-dumpxml $i; done

- Cole




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