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-1.4.3/virtinst/guest.py =================================================================== --- virt-manager-1.4.3.orig/virtinst/guest.py +++ virt-manager-1.4.3/virtinst/guest.py @@ -805,7 +805,8 @@ class Guest(XMLBuilder): # install. if (dev.is_cdrom() and getattr(dev, "installer_media", False) and - not self._os_object.is_windows()): + not self._os_object.is_windows() and + not self.os_variant.startswith(("sles", "sled", "opensuse"))): dev.path = None def _set_defaults(self):