Re: [Xen-users] CD/DVD drive in DomU

["Todd Deshane" <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Paul Schulze <avlex@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
>
> I was just playing around with my Xen project again and tried to assign a
> physical CD/DVD drive to my Desktop DomU via the disk section in the config
> file, because I want to use it for CD and DVD reading and writing (like on a
> normal desktop). I tried 'phy:/dev/scd0,scd0,r' and
> 'phy:/dev/scd0,scd0:cdrom,r', which resulted in the device not showing up in
> /dev in the DomU at all, and 'phy:/dev/scd0,hdc:cdrom,r' and
> 'phy:/dev/scd0,hdc,r', resulting in the device showing up but wodim -scanbus
> not finding it (which would be essential for CD/DVD writing) and no
> auto-mounting.
>
> After a bit of research, I tried to pass the IDE controller to that DomU,
> which resulted in the CD/DVD drive not being available in either of the VMs
> and a system crash when destroying down the Desktop DomU. I already checked
> for possibly overlapping IRQs, but as far as I could see, when assigning the
> IDE controller to that DomU, it is then the sole user of it.
>
> Am I doing something wrong here, or is there any better way to accomplish
> this? Ideally, the sollution wouldn't have to depend on passing the IDE
> controller to the DomU, since I am planning on replacing the current IDE
> DVD-Writer with a SATA BD-Combo and my board only has one SATA controller
> (and I wouldn't like to buy a separate one). Any ideas on how to make this
> work?
>

Maybe this is related:
http://xen.markmail.org/search/?q=media#query:media%20date%3A200807-200808%20+page:1+mid:2qqhjm6mb2yearoc+state:results


> Thanks,
>
>
> Paul.
>
> P.S.: Sorry for double-posting my last message, looks like my Mail client
> screwed up somewhere.
>
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