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Re: [Xen-users] Re: Raw device mapping/pass through disks to XEN VM's

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Ganesh Kamath <ganbidada@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Is it not possible to configure RDM's or passthrough disks for Xen
>> VM's?.When i define a disk with the "phy" attribute in the configuration
>> file, does that make it an RDM?.

Sort of. For most purposes (e.g. booting from a physical drive, etc.)
it does what you want in the simplest possible way.
For other purposes (like CD/DVD writer) you'll need PVSCSI, available
since Xen 3.3.
What do you have in mind?

Regards,

Fajar

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