[fedora-virt] DVD RW under KVM guest

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 05.05.2011 14:28, schrieb 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?

Yes, SCSI passthrough is what I mean.

Kevin