RE: [Xen-users] booting domU from DVD

["Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>]

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> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Glenn Davy
> Sent: 23 April 2007 03:59
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] booting domU from DVD
> 
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:40:39 pm mark pryor wrote:
> > 'file:/home/glenn/winosdvd.img,dvd,r'
> >                                              ^^^^^
> > change above to
> > hdc:dvd
> 
> Thanks mark - that eliminated 50% of my issues... I can now 
> see the drive, in 
> the device listing at boot

Although I've used "...,hdc:cdrom,r", I have managed to get Windows
Vista from a UDF to boot/install without a problem [although it requires
a reasonably recent version of Xen unstable/3.0.5 RCx to work on AMD
processor]. 

I'd guess that the other problem is that you're trying to export a
PARTITION rather than a DISK to the guest - it needs to see a disk, so
your "/dev/sda1,sda1,w" should be "/dev/sda1,sda,w" [or per haps hda
instead of sda, as I'm not sure if SCSI disks work for ioemulation]. 

--
Mats
> 
> >
> > that should be enough as long as you have the dvd as an iso
> >
> > cd /home/glenn
> > dd if=/dev/dvd of=winosdvd.img
> >
> > its not enough to copy the dvd to the drive it must be an 
> iso9660 file type
> 
> and you predicted this problem correctly. Its a UDF file 
> system... i'll have 
> to investigate and try an find away to convert a udf system 
> to a bootable 
> iso9660
> 
> thanks
> 
> Glenn
> 
> 
> 
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