[fedora-virt] DVD RW under KVM guest

[Amit Shah]

On (Tue) 03 May 2011 [10:07:27], Kevin Wolf wrote:
> 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.

You mean passthrough of host cdrom over the scsi layer?

		Amit