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libvirt-machine-properties: Offer to boot from CDROM/DVD

Felipe Borges requested to merge allow-booting-from-cdrom into master

We have a "CD/DVD" option in "Devices & Shares" and that allows to select a CD or DVD to be available inside the VM. It would be nice being able to make this media bootable, in order to rescue a broken system.

Fixes #34 (closed)

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When the CD is bootable, you get the classic BIOS prompt "Booting from DVD/CD... Press any key to boot from CD or DVD...." until it timeouts and it boots from the HD.

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I had to rescue a broken VM today and this was very useful. We could discuss the labels of the toggle buttons or even the use of toggle buttons (could this be a Gtk.Switch instead?)

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