[virt-tools-list] Using more than four CDROMs with virt-manager

[Jimmy Crossley]

Thanks, Cole.  I used virsh edit to edit the XML and it works great.  All I had to do was change the bus from ide to scsi and give each one a unique unit number.





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-----Original Message-----
From: Cole Robinson [mailto:crobinso at redhat.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 19:00
To: Jimmy Crossley
Cc: virt-tools-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [virt-tools-list] Using more than four CDROMs with virt-manager

On 10/04/2012 07:40 PM, Jimmy Crossley wrote:
> Is it possible to create a kvm machine with more than 4 CDROM drives using virt-manager 0.8.4?  If I just run kvm from the command line, I can specify as many SCSI CDROMs as I want.  But virt-manager only creates IDE CDROMs, as far as I can tell.  Could I tweak the XML file to add SCSI CDROMs?  I am using kvm 0.12.5 on Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.6, amd64.

virt-manager doesn't currently support creating SCSI CDROM devices. You can
tweak the XML though, you basically want something like:

    <disk type='block' device='cdrom'>
      <target dev='sda' bus='scsi'/>
    </disk>

- Cole