[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#510340: Bug#510340: virt-manager: Cannot mount CD image when VM is running.

[Guido Guenther]

reassign 510340 libvirt0
severity 510340 normal
thanks

Robert LeBlanc schrieb:
> Package: virt-manager
> Version: 0.6.0-6
> Severity: important
> 
> I have a little problem with attaching a CD image or physical CD. When the VM is powered on I get this error 
> message:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/details.py", line 1664, in connect_cdrom
>     self.vm.connect_cdrom_device(type, source, target)
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 846, in connect_cdrom_device
>     self._change_cdrom(result, origdisk)
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 817, in _change_cdrom
>     self.attach_device(newdev)
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 778, in attach_device
>     self.vm.attachDevice(xml)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 212, in attachDevice
>     if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainAttachDevice() failed', dom=self)
> libvirtError: internal error Cannot determine QEMU argv syntax (null)
> 
> I can attach the CD before the VM is powered on and it works fine. I was not able to do this before updating to the 
> virt-manager packages in SID.
> 
> The problem is on a KVM (72+dfsg-4) VM although virt-manager says the hypervisor is qemu (0.9.1-8).
Where does it say that it's 0.9.1-8? Can you please attach
/var/log/libvirt/<vm>.log
    as well as
virsh dumpxml <vm>
I just double checked with kvm 72 and it works here.
Cheers,
 -- Guido