Re: [Xen-users] Adding Devices to a running DomU

["Jose Betancourt" <jbetancourt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you very, very much.  Exactly what I needed.

Thanks again.

Jose Betancourt

>>> On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 11:03 AM, in message
<44B50F5F.5000404@xxxxxxxx>,
Andrej Radonic <andrej.radonic@xxxxxxxx> wrote: 
>>  What is the right sequence of steps to add new devices to a
running
>> DomU?
>> 
>> For example: Make the CD/DVD unit on a physical machine
visible/usable
>> by a DomU or adding a new physical device (hdX/sdX) for future use
as a
>> file system?
>> 
>> I would like to be able to do it without shutting down the DomU, if
>> possible.
> 
> Jose,
> 
> yes, this is possible without interrupting domU.
> 
> Do it like this:
> 
> xm block- attach <DomId> <BackDev> <FrontDev> <Mode>
> 
> Example:
> 
> xm block- attach 7 file:/home/xen/knoppix.iso hdc rw
> 
> Export /home/xen/knoppix.iso as hdc and read- write into domain 7.
> 
> Check with xm block- list 7
> 
> Detach with
> 
> xm block- detach 7 <BlockDeviceID>
> 
> You get BlockDeviceID with xm block- list <domid>
> 
> BTW: you can do this also with network- interfaces
> => network- attach
> => network- list
> => network- detach
> 
> Good luck,
> Andrej


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