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Bug 673845 - CDROM media not getting presented as source
CDROM media not getting presented as source
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: gnome-boxes
Classification: Applications
Component: general
3.4.x (unsupported)
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Boxes maintainer(s)
GNOME Boxes maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-04-10 14:52 UTC by Zeeshan Ali
Modified: 2016-03-31 13:54 UTC
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Description Zeeshan Ali 2012-04-10 14:52:20 UTC 
Seems we don't present (HW) CDROM media at the source page. Opening this bug so we don't forget..
Comment 1 Marc-Andre Lureau 2012-04-22 19:20:37 UTC 
Sometime it works, apparently when the device was mounted (f17).

However, installation fails, as qemu can't read the cdrom (probably because it is mounted)
Comment 2 Zeeshan Ali 2012-04-23 01:58:16 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Sometime it works, apparently when the device was mounted (f17).

For me it just didn't work, the device gets automatically mounted of course.

> However, installation fails, as qemu can't read the cdrom (probably because it
> is mounted)

Nope, you need to be member of 'disk' group to be able to have raw access to the device last I checked. Me and Daniel had some long discussion with Kai and davidz about this and conclusion so far is that we create a setuid root utility that feeds an FD to qemu (probably as part of libvirt).
Comment 3 Zeeshan Ali 2012-05-31 22:52:02 UTC 
Turns out to be a regression (more like one patch in a series, forgotten) in libosinfo. Fixed in git master already..