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RE: [Xen-users] TAPE on guest

To: "Nicolas Michel" <nicolas.michel@xxxxxxxxx>, <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] TAPE on guest
From: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 20:03:24 +1100
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> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a server with a tape. Of course my dom0 see it but I don't want
> to manage backups from dom0 and want to do it with a guest. In that
case
> I need to show the tape to the guest. I don't know how to do it. Is
> there more than one way?
> 

If it's a SCSI tape, or even if Linux sees it as a SCSI tape, you should
be able to use scsi passthrough.

James

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