On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 07:58:53PM +0900, Nobuhiro Itou wrote: > Hi, Hugh and Dan > > > > Hi there. > > > > > > I still prefer the idea of leaving the CDROM mounted because the > > > heuristic we use to determine if a Windows guest is being installed is a > > > big hack, and because we don't use that code at all in virt-manager and > > > I would like the cdrom to stay mounted by default in virt-manager > > > installs as well. > > > > > > However, if the earlier behavior is useful to anyone, I'd be happy to > > > take a patch for a virtinst argument that would direct virtinst not to > > > include the cdrom device in the post-install guest description. > > > > How about leaving the CDROM device itself always attached, but not having > > any file (media) associated with it. That would keep the simplicity of > > always doing the same config for all OS, while still allowing people to > > use 'xm block-configure' for Windows guests to add the CDROM again. > > The above-mentioned idea just corresponds to the state before correction. > Although Windows may be unique compared with other OS's, > the user can enough continue installation by using xm block-configure. Ok, I put this change back to the way it was before. So all guests get a CDROM device permanently attached, but with no media loaded after install. The Windows exception is of course still there. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
