Listen wrote: Nope, the monitor is redirected so that libvirt can send commands to it directly. However, support for usb device attach/detach was just added to libvirt, so you won't need to directly talk to the monitor to do this. You should be able to do something like the following for a usb disk: cat << __eof__ > disk.xml <disk type='file' device='disk'> <source file='/path/to/diskfile'/> <target bus='usb'/> </disk> __eof__ virsh attach-device some-active-domain disk.xml I haven't tested this so no guarantees, and you'll need current upstream libvirt. Hopefully this will be in virt-manager soon though so it will be nice and easy :) - Cole

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:52:59AM -0500, Duzenbury, Rich wrote: Use the 'virsh attach-disk' command - it you give it the name of an existing CDROM device, it will perform a media change operation. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|