15.9. Attaching ISO images to virtual machines

Procedure

1. Locate the target device where the ISO image is attached to the VM. You can find this information in the VM’s XML configuration file.

   For example, the following command displays the example-VM-name VM’s XML configuration file, where the target device for the virtual optical drive is sda.

   # virsh dumpxml example-VM-name
   ...
   <disk>
     ...
     <source file='$(/home/username/Downloads/example-ISO-name.iso)'/>
     <target dev='sda' bus='sata'/>
     ...
   </disk>
   ...

2. Use the virt-xml utility with the --edit argument.

   For example, the following command replaces the example-ISO-name ISO image, attached to the example-VM-name VM at target sda, with the example-ISO-name-2 ISO image stored in the /dev/cdrom directory.

   # virt-xml example-VM-name --edit target=sda --disk /dev/cdrom/example-ISO-name-2.iso
   Domain 'example-VM-name' defined successfully.

Procedure

1. Locate the target device where the ISO image is attached to the VM. You can find this information in the VM’s XML configuration file.

   For example, the following command displays the example-VM-name VM’s XML configuration file, where the target device for the virtual optical drive is sda.

   # virsh dumpxml example-VM-name
   ...
   <disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
     <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
     <target dev='sda' bus='sata'/>
     ...
   </disk>
   ...

2. Use the virt-xml utility with the --remove-device argument.

   For example, the following command removes the optical drive attached as target sda from the example-VM-name VM.

   # virt-xml example-VM-name --remove-device --disk target=sda
   Domain 'example-VM-name' defined successfully.