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David,
I don’t know how much this will help you, as I don’t know much
about your setup. I am running XP HVM guests on F7 (Moonshine) using the
old fashioned text xen method (/etc/xen/auto/guest.hvm, xm create,
xm destroy, etc), and I can’t change actual CDs or DVDs in my XP
guests. That is to say, I think if a CD/DVD is in the drive when I start
the guest and hdc:cdrom is connected to /dev/cdrom in the hvm file, the CD/DVD
in the drive works, however, changing it out does not. However, if hdc:cdrom
is connected to /dev/cdrom and there is no disc in the drive (or perhaps even
if there is), I can ues the xm block-attach and xm block-detach, for instance: xm block-list 2 xm block-detach 2 5632 –f xm block-attach 2
file:///iso/lm70200.iso hdc:cdrom r xm block-detach 2 5632 –f xm block-attach 2
phy:/dev/cdrom hdc:cdrom r In the above commands, I listed the block devices, determined
which was the cdrom, detached it, attached an iso, used it as needed in the
guest, detached the iso, and reattached the physical drive (even though it
doesn’t work). I can do this over and over again. Going back
to the physical device probably isn’t necessary, but I do it so I am
always starting from the same point. The reason I doubt it matters is
that once XP is booted, it always shows that drive, detaching it doesn’t
make it disappear, and reattaching it doesn’t give it a new ID (even if
scanning for hardware changes between steps). I am also fairly certain
that trying to attach one iso over another isn’t sufficient. If you
eject the tray on the cdrom drive from within xp, you’re done until you
reboot as far as I can tell, but with the above steps, if you don’t do
that, it seems to work alright. I don’t know if this will help you
at all, seeing a how you more than likely use virt-install, virt-manager, etc,
but I figure it can’t hurt if there is a similar process for that system.
Good luck, Dustin From:
fedora-xen-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-xen-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of David Levinger Hey
guys and gals, As
the subject suggests, is it possible to block-attach a newly placed
CD/DVD/HD/Img file to an XP guest? I’ve done the “normal”
block-attach command and it says it has “attached” but nothing
shows in the XP guest… d |
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