Re: [Qemu-devel] block bug: tray status is not updated (and/or guest ignores it)

[Markus Armbruster]

"Daniel P. Berrange" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:39:35AM -0300, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 May 2011 18:10:08 +0530
>> Amit Shah <address@hidden> wrote:
[...]
>> > What's weird though is 'eject' in the monitor makes the cdrom go away
>> > -- a subsequent mount in the guest results in a no medium error.  I
>> > thought we had solved that, Markus?
>> > 
>> > By not doing a bdrv_close() in the do_eject()->eject_device() call
>> > path this starts working as expected.
>> 
>> Yes, also note that with the -f option eject is capable of purging
>> any block device. I wonder if libvirt (or any client) relies on this.
>
> libvirt will only issue 'eject' on devices which are CDROMs, or Floppy,
> never hard disks, etc.

Any use of -f?  Recommend to stay away from it.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676528