Re: [Xen-users] Multiple cdrom file-based drives in windows xp hvm?

[Brandon Lamb <brandonlamb@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Pasi KÃrkkÃinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 12:57:55PM -0700, Brandon Lamb wrote:
>> In my vm2 config i have:
>>
>> disk = [
>> Â Â 'phy:/dev/volumes/vm2-disk,hda,w',
>> Â Â 'phy:/dev/volumes/vm2-swap,hdb,w',
>> Â Â 'phy:/dev/volumes/vm2-data,hdc,w',
>> Â Â 'file:/xen/images/office2007basic.iso,hdd,r',
>> Â Â 'file:/xen/images/printshopinstall.iso,hde,r',
>> Â Â 'file:/xen/images/printshopprog.iso,hdf,r',
>> ]
>>
>> However only one disk will show up. If I comment 2 out and pick any
>> one, it will show up singly, but I cannot get these to all show up as
>> 3 cdrom drives. Am I doing something wrong, or is xen somehow limited
>> to a single cdrom drive or what?
>>
>> Using xen 3.4 and 2.6.31.12 kernel
>>
>
> I think HVM guests are limited to 4 emulated IDE devices.
>
> You might want to use GPLPV drivers in Windows.. that should release some IDE 
> devices.
> (I'm not sure if GPLPV devices support cdroms).
>
> -- Pasi

Yea I have the gplpv drivers installed. Its weird, I couldnt figure it
out so instead im just building a disk image and copying all the iso's
to it and then I'll just mount that on my windows guests and use a
virtual cdrom driver to mount them

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