I would suggest setting up an ISO file
archive in Xen of the CDROMs that you frequently need to access within your domU.
Once you have a lot of VMs running, it will be more convenient for you than
trying to share a single physical drive.
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Subject: [Xen-users] Windows 2003
server CDROM and XEN
Hi all,
I was able to successfully install Windows 2003 Server guest on Xen (pretty
painlessly, I might add) and while the CDROM was working during the
installation, it now is not. I have logged in an patched Windows successfully
and all appears to be right except the CDROM. On the physical server, the
device is actually a DVD ROM but it worked during installation so I don't think
that was the problem.
In Windows' compmgmt.msc and in the "My Computer" utility, I see a
CDROM but no media in the CDROM. I have to restart the domU to get the CD ROM
to detect the CD.
Is there an easier way to have a Windows domU detect the CD in the CDROM?
