Insert or Remove Virtual CD-ROM on Virtual Machine

Using the Virtual machines (VM) page in the web console, Cockpit administrators can choose to insert or remove a virtual CD-ROM on a running virtual machine.

What Do You Need?

• The Cockpit web console must be installed and accessible.

  For details, see these topics: Install and Enable Cockpit and Log in to the Cockpit Web Console.

• The Cockpit-machines add-on application must be installed in the web console and the Oracle Linux virtualization packages must be installed and enabled on the host system.

  For more information, see Install Cockpit-Machines and Enable Virtualization.

• One or more virtual machine instances must exist on the host system and appear in the Virtual machines page.

Steps

Using the Cockpit web console, follow these steps to insert or eject virtual CD-ROMs on a running virtual machine.

1. In the navigation pane, click Virtual machines.

   The Virtual machines page appears.

2. In the Virtual machines page, select the name of the virtual machine of interest and navigate to the Disk section that contains the CDROM device properties.

3. In the Disk section of the CD-ROM device perform one of the following:
   • Insert a CD-ROM ISO image into the virtual machine by clicking Insert.
   • Eject a CD-ROM device from the Virtual machine by clicking Eject.