On 28/06/2011 00:07, Steve Campbell wrote:
Now, back to the original question. What is necessary to make this work like a normal, non-VM install?
I haven't tried this with VMM, but you almost certainly have to run 'virsh detach-disk' to unmount the first DVD, and 'virsh attach-disk' to mount the second DVD. virsh is very poorly documented (http://libvirt.org/sources/virshcmdref/html-single/#sect-detach-disk), so you may have to mess around. My old Xen instructions for attaching/detaching iso images *on disk* are below. Try swapping 'file' to 'tap', and 'path-to-iso.iso' to '/dev/sr0', to use physical DVDs. Note that the newer virsh does not use a number to identify your VM, so use your VM name directly instead of '5' below.
# virsh list // get the VM ID, say '5' (or just use the name now?)
# virsh detach-disk 5 hdc // might not be hdc!
# virsh attach-disk 5 path-to-image.iso hdc --driver file --type cdrom --mode readonly
Will KVM handle this differently?
I think it will be identical - this has nothing to do with Xen or KVM per se.