Removing a CD-ROM device = virDomainDetachDevice() failed

[Richard Laager]

I tried to remove a CD-ROM drive from a running virtual machine. It successfully removed it from the .xml file in /etc/libvirt/qemu, but spewed the following error and did not remove it from the GUI. I didn't test on a stopped virtual machine. If the problem is that it can't remove it from a running VM, I'd say it should just ignore that (and remove it from the .xml file (which worked) and also the GUI).

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/details.py", line 875, in remove_device
    self.vm.remove_device(xml)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 818, in remove_device
    raise RuntimeError, "Unable to detach device from live guest, libvirt reported: \n" + device_exception
RuntimeError: Unable to detach device from live guest, libvirt reported:
virDomainDetachDevice() failed this function is not supported by the hypervisor: virDomainDetachDevice

[Marcus Asshauer (mcas)]

Thank you for reporting this bug. Please add your ubuntu version and the version of virt-manager.

[Richard Laager (rlaager)]

I'm running virt-manager 0.5.3-0ubuntu10 on Hardy.

[Richard Laager (rlaager)]

Upstream says this is fixed upstream.