Re: Fw: [Xen-users] using Tape Drive

["Daniel Bauer" <mlist@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Mark Williamson" <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > From: "Daniel Bauer" <mlist@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > is it possible to use a tape drive in a domU?
> > >
> > > I could access it als /dev/sg0 and /dev/st1 in dom0.
> >
> > does really nobody have a clue?
> You can't pass through a tape drive straightforwardly.  You could 
> assigned the
> SCSI controller PCI device to the domU and have it control all the 
> SCSI
> devices attached to it...
>
> Best solution is probably to use a network tape backup solution of 
> your choice
> and use that - just pretend the dom0 is the tape backup server and 
> domU is a
> client.
From: "Marcos Paulo Serafim" <mpserafim@xxxxxxxxx>
> Old messages but I think nothing has changed:
>
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2005-01/msg01144.html
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2005-02/msg00502.html
ok, that's bad, thanks a lot for this hint. I asked this because of the 
medium changer control. The mtx is not in SuSE 10.1 anymore, in SuSE 9.3 
everythin was fine ;)
Greetings
Daniel


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