'virsh detach-disk' fails to detach a DVD image from a guest OS
Issue
- Although "virsh attach-disk" can attach a DVD image to a guest OS, "virsh detach-disk" fails to detach the DVD image from the guest OS.
error: Failed to detach disk error: this function is not supported by the connection driver: This type of device cannot bi hot unplugged
- Steps to reproduce are as follows:
1. Start a guest OS. 2. Attach a DVD image to the guest OS. # virsh attach-disk <guest-name> <image-file> hdc --type cdrom --mode readonly <The above command should succeed.> 3. Detach the DVD image from the guest OS. # virsh detach-disk <guest-name> hdc <The above command should fail with error messages>.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- libvirt-client-0.8.1-27.el6.x86_64
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