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

[Andrew Ruch]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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
>

I didn't find any updates to virt-manager, but I did download the
newest libvirt in the "updates-testing" repo. Same problem. I created
Bugzilla Issue 1229819.