[fedora-virt] DVD RW under KVM guest

[Amit Shah]

On (Thu) 05 May 2011 [14:32:56], Kevin Wolf wrote:
> 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.

Might work - don't think anyone has tested that.  Do
libvirt/virt-manager support that?

		Amit