Re: [fedora-virt] Cannot disconnect CD if cdrom is boot device

[Cole Robinson]

On 06/09/2015 09:57 AM, Andrew Ruch wrote:
>  Hello,
>  
>  I recently upgraded from Fedora 20 to Fedora 22. I'm running
>  libvirt-1.2.13.1-1.fc22.x86_64 and virt-manager-1.2.0-1.fc22.noarch.
>  
>  I'm no longer able to disconnect a CD from the CDROM device if the
>  device is enabled as a boot device. I'm using virt-manager to manage
>  the guests.
>  
>  This is my workflow. I have a RHEL 6 installer with a custom
>  kickstart. I install the guest using the my custom RHEL ISO, meaning
>  the CDROM is enabled as a boot device. During the post phase of the
>  kickstart, the RHEL ISO is ejected and a custom configuration ISO is
>  inserted to finish the custom part of the installation. This used to
>  work in Fedora 20. I now get the following error:
>  
>  unsupported configuration: boot order 1 is already used by another device
>  
>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/addhardware.py", line
>  1420, in change_config_helper
>      define_func(devobj=devobj, do_hotplug=True, **define_args)
>    File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 804, in
> define_disk
>      self.hotplug(**hotplug_kwargs)
>    File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 1111, in hotplug
>      self.attach_device(device)
>    File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 1041, in
>  attach_device
>      self._backend.attachDevice(devxml)
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 508, in
>  attachDevice
>      if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainAttachDevice()
>  failed', dom=self)
>  libvirtError: unsupported configuration: boot order 1 is already used
>  by another device
>  
>  
>  I also noticed that even after install, if the CDROM device is enabled
>  as a boot device, no media can be connected/disconnected while the
>  guest is running. I know this could be avoided by disabling it as a
>  boot device, but I would expect it to work more like it used to in
>  Fedora 20. Is there something else I can set in my configuration that
>  would allow me to connect/disconnect media if it's a bootable device?
>  Or do I need to open an issue? 
There's a new virt-manager version in f22... probably won't fix it but it's
worth trying. sudo yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update virt-manager

If it still reproduces, please reproduce with virt-manager --debug, and attach
the output to a fedora virt-manager bug report and I'll take a look.

Thanks,
Cole