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Re: [Xen-users] CDRom and DomU

That worked.

Now can I use the DVDRECORDER specification -- or am I pushing my luck.

On Thu, 2006-21-12 at 15:21 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:21:50AM -0500, Edward Ing wrote:
> > My disk specification is exactly as in the first.
> > 
> > disk =
> > ['phy:/dev/domU/dom1root,hda1,w','phy:/dev/domU/dom1swap,hda2,w','phy:/dev/hdc,hdc,r']
> > 
> > However the CDROM is not visible domU
> 
> That's because you haven't told Xen that hdc should be exposed as a CDROM
> device instead of the normal harddisk. Change the config to look like:
> 
> disk =
>  
> ['phy:/dev/domU/dom1root,hda1,w','phy:/dev/domU/dom1swap,hda2,w','phy:/dev/hdc,hdc:cdrom,r']
> 
> Note, the ":cdrom" tag on the end of the target device name.
> 
> > ====================
> > On 11/17/06, jonr@xxxxxxxxxx <jonr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >         disk = ['phy:/dev/hdc,hdc,r']
> >         
> >         or
> >         
> >         disk = ['tap:aio:cdrom.iso,hdc,r']
> >         
> >         cdrom = '/dev/hdc'
> > You should only need this, not the latter two.
> 
> No, 'cdrom = ' is obsolete as of Xen 3.0.3. Instead you need to have :cdrom
> appended to target device name,
> 
> Dan.

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