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-2.1.0/virtinst/installer.py =================================================================== --- virt-manager-2.1.0.orig/virtinst/installer.py +++ virt-manager-2.1.0/virtinst/installer.py @@ -105,7 +105,8 @@ class Installer(object): return if self.livecd: 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 self._install_cdrom_device.path = None