Older SLE guests have a two stage installation that need the ISO. Newer SLE PV guests hang when a cdrom device is attached without an ISO file. Index: virt-manager-3.3.0/virtinst/install/installer.py =================================================================== --- virt-manager-3.3.0.orig/virtinst/install/installer.py +++ virt-manager-3.3.0/virtinst/install/installer.py @@ -168,7 +168,8 @@ class Installer(object): def _remove_install_cdrom_media(self, guest): if not self._install_cdrom_device_added: return - if guest.osinfo.is_windows(): + if (guest.osinfo.is_windows() or + guest.osinfo.name.startswith(("sles", "sled", "opensuse"))): # Keep media attached for windows which has a multi stage install return for disk in guest.devices.disk: