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[Xen-devel] RE: [Xen-users] Can not find the cdrom device in /dev/ after

To: "Liang Yang" <multisyncfe991@xxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Xen-devel] RE: [Xen-users] Can not find the cdrom device in /dev/ after booted into xen(3.0.3)
From: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:22:35 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Liang Yang
> Sent: 01 December 2006 16:12
> To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Subject: [Xen-users] Can not find the cdrom device in /dev/ 
> after booted into xen(3.0.3)
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I just did a fresh installation of Xen 3.0.3. However, I can 
> not find my
> cd-rom device under /dev/ after I booted into Xen. If I 
> booted into Linux
> native (RHELAS 4.4), CD-ROM device is there and listed as 
> /dev/cdrom. I know
> Xen changed the CD-ROM access mode from HVM domain. But for 
> Xen domain0, it
> should still be listed as /dev/cdrom, right?

/dev/cdrom is a "link" to the actual /dev/[sh]d[abcd] device that is the
CDROM drive. As far as I understand, it's normally created by the
distributions initrd. You may be able to disassemble your distributions
initrd and find the line that creates this link - but the fact is that
different distributions do this slightly differently. 

Much easier to just use /dev/[sh]d[abcd] for your cdrom. 

--
Mats
> 
> I think the driver for CD-ROM must be already loaded and it 
> is hided by Xen
> somehow. I checked a Linux Server beta version which has 
> integrated Xen on
> the same platform, I can find the cdrom device in /dev/. I 
> remember Xen
> 3.0.2 does not have this problem either.
> 
> Could anyone share some solutions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Liang
> 
> 
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