Hi today I tried to attach the physical CDROM to a DomU (Dom0 and DomU both running Solaris, Dom0: Solaris snv_78, DomU: Solaris snv_81). The DomU is a PV DomU. I found a solution for this but it doesn''t look right (see below). If I use c1t0d0s0 or c1t0d0s2 for the block-attach command I can not access the CDROM from within the DomU. regards Bernd How to attach the physical CDROM drive to a running Solaris DomU # #### in the DomU # before attaching the CDROM # bash-3.2# ls /dev/dsk c0d0p0 c0d0p3 c0d0s1 c0d0s12 c0d0s15 c0d0s4 c0d0s7 c0d0p1 c0d0p4 c0d0s10 c0d0s13 c0d0s2 c0d0s5 c0d0s8 c0d0p2 c0d0s0 c0d0s11 c0d0s14 c0d0s3 c0d0s6 c0d0s9 # ### in the Dom0 # # Note: Stop the volume management if it''s running # xm list Name ID Mem VCPUs State Time(s) Domain-0 0 403 1 r----- 714.1 solaris_10_snv81 4 367 1 -b---- 32.9 # xm block-list 4 Vdev BE handle state evt-ch ring-ref BE-path 0 0 0 4 5 8 /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/4/0 # xm block-attach 4 phy://dev/dsk/c1t0d0p0 6 r # xm block-list 4 Vdev BE handle state evt-ch ring-ref BE-path 0 0 0 4 5 8 /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/4/0 6 0 0 4 7 855 /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/4/6 # ### in the DomU # bash-3.2# ls /dev/dsk c0d0p0 c0d0s1 c0d0s15 c0d0s7 c0d6p3 c0d6s12 c0d6s4 c0d0p1 c0d0s10 c0d0s2 c0d0s8 c0d6p4 c0d6s13 c0d6s5 c0d0p2 c0d0s11 c0d0s3 c0d0s9 c0d6s0 c0d6s14 c0d6s6 c0d0p3 c0d0s12 c0d0s4 c0d6p0 c0d6s1 c0d6s15 c0d6s7 c0d0p4 c0d0s13 c0d0s5 c0d6p1 c0d6s10 c0d6s2 c0d6s8 c0d0s0 c0d0s14 c0d0s6 c0d6p2 c0d6s11 c0d6s3 c0d6s9 bash-3.2# fstyp /dev/rdsk/c0d6s0 unknown_fstyp (no matches) bash-3.2# fstyp /dev/rdsk/c0d6s2 unknown_fstyp (no matches) bash-3.2# fstyp /dev/rdsk/c0d6p0 hsfs bash-3.2# mount -o ro -F hsfs /dev/dsk/c0d6p0 /mnt bash-3.2# df -k /mnt Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/dsk/c0d6p0 3851160 3851160 0 100% /mnt bash-3.2# ls -l /mnt total 944 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 7024 Jan 4 00:44 Copyright dr-xr-xr-x 6 root root 2048 Dec 21 22:24 DeveloperTools -r--r--r-- 1 root root 460262 Jan 4 00:37 JDS-THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Jan 15 21:30 License -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1540 Jan 8 20:00 README.txt dr-xr-xr-x 7 root root 2048 Jan 15 21:31 Solaris_11 dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 2048 Jan 15 21:32 Sun_HPC_ClusterTools -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 50 Jan 4 00:37 autorun.inf -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 322 Jan 4 00:37 autorun.sh dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root 2048 Jan 15 21:31 boot -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 257 Jan 15 21:06 installer dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 2048 Jan 15 21:32 sddtool -- Bernd Schemmer, Frankfurt am Main, Germany http://home.arcor.de/bnsmb/index.html M s temprano que tarde el mundo cambiar . Fidel Castro