[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#500263: Bug#500263: [virt-manager] Impossible to attach a physical optical drive to an already created VM

[Guido Günther]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 04:35:54PM +0200, Laurent Léonard wrote:
> Le jeudi 02 octobre 2008 à 15:48, Guido Günther a écrit :
> > On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 03:27:08PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 07:41:53PM +0200, Laurent Léonard wrote:
> > > > --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
> > > > When a VM is already created it is impossible to attach a physical
> > > > optical drive to it, the drop list in the CD-ROM hardware details
> > > > section is empty, even if I eject and reinsert the optical media. The
> > > > drop list in the VM creation wizard is working without any problem.
> > >
> > > Works here (although the dialog keeps on getting new entries of the same
> > > name). Do you have hal installed?
> >
> > Scratch that. The bug actually shows when you insert the CD before
> > opening the dialog.
> >  -- Guido
> 
> By default, the ISO source is selected in the dialog, if I select physical 
> media source there is nothing in the drop list and if I select again ISO 
> source the drop list change its size. 
> 
> If I select again physical media source I can see 4 entries in the drop list 
> with "No media present (/dev/scd0)". At this time if I insert a physical 
> media in the drive each entries gets the volume name of the physical media. 
> 
> If I select again the ISO source the drop list change its size. If I select 
> again the physical media source I get 8 entries in the drop list : 4 with 
> only the volume name and 4 with volume name + " (/dev/scd0)". If I repeat the 
> operation I get 4 entries more in the drop list. 
I've uploaded a fix for that and similar issues. It should work in -3.
I'd be great to hear if it works for you too then.
 -- Guido