On 02/08/2015 03:40 PM, Gizmo Chicken wrote: > When creating a Windows 7 guest on a Q35 machine, I attempted to add > one VirtIO data drive for the guest OS, one CD-ROM drive for the > installation media and a second CD-ROM drive for the VirtIO drivers > that must be installed prior to installing Windows 7 on a VirtIO > drive. Unfortunately, when hitting “begin installation” I received an > error message. (See below for details.) > > In essence, the error message says that I had attempted to exceed the > maximum number of drives permitted for one IDE bus. (Actually, more > drives could be added to the single bus, but not in the way > virt-manager attempts to add them.) > > So I added a SATA bus and I tried to add the additional CD-ROMs to > that SATA bus, but couldn't find an explicit option to do so directly. > > Finally, after first adding the IDE CD-ROMs (but before hitting “begin > installation”), I went to “advanced options” for each CD-ROM and typed > “sata” (in lower case, without the quotes) next to “Disk bus” (in > place of IDE) for each CD-ROM, and then hit “begin installation” to > create the guest. Doing so allowed me to add two SATA CD-ROMs to a Q35 > machine using virt-manager. > > FEATURE REQUEST: Please provide a more direct means for adding SATA > CD-ROM drives when creating a guest machine. And ideally, SATA CD-ROMs > should be the default when using a Q35 machine. > Please file a virt-manager bug report for this, so it isn't lost on the mailing list: http://virt-manager.org/bugs/ - Cole _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
