[fedora-virt] DVD RW under KVM guest

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 03.05.2011 09:09, schrieb Amit Shah:
> On (Mon) 02 May 2011 [20:04:26], Radu Borsaru wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> (this is the third time I'm trying to post this thread; cc-ing virt-owner for help)
> 
> Has made it to the list, stripping off that CC.
> 
>> I'm using Fedora 14 with KVM/QEMU virtualization.
>> I have created a XP guest that is working fine.
>> However it cannot recognize the DVD-RW that I have available for the host. It can only mount a read-only DVD (/dev/sr0).
>> If I open the details for the guest VM I cannot untick the read-only box that I can find under the storage options (it is grayed out).
>> Is there any way I can mount this DVD as a rewritable media?
> 
> Currently media is only exported as read-only to the guest.  RW is
> possible, but there's no timeframe for it yet.

Shouldn't it be possible via scsi-generic? Not sure if libvirt provides
an interface for that, though.

Kevin