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Hi, I''ve been trying to boot from a RHEL4 install iso without much luck (the xen way). The Host is: RHEL 5.1 xen-3.0.3-41.el5 Here is my guest config: # -*- mode: python; -*- #============================================================================ # Python configuration setup for ''xm create''. # This script sets the parameters used when a domain is created using

I''m running Xen on RHEL5. I''ve got two problems with CD-ROMs. In my .hvm file, I''ve got the following line: disk = [ ''phy:/dev/VG_Guests/WinXP-001,ioemu:hda,w'', ''file:/opt/xen_stuff/winxp.iso,hdc:cdrom,w'', ''phy:/dev/scd0,hdd:cdrom,r'' ] The first CD-ROM, (the one linking to the file winxp.iso), appears to WinXP to

I''m currently using xen 4.1 on an Ubuntu 12.04 Dom0 and I''m trying to passthrough the machines phyical cdom drive as ''phy:/dev/cdrom,hdc:cdrom,r'' in the config file. If a cd is present in the drive on bootup everything works fine; I can read data from the disk, eject it and so on. If however the drive is empty on startup I get a bsod of type

I''m currently using xen 4.1 on an Ubuntu 12.04 Dom0 and I''m trying to passthrough the machines phyical cdom drive as ''phy:/dev/cdrom,hdc:cdrom,r'' in the config file. If a cd is present in the drive on bootup everything works fine; I can read data from the disk, eject it and so on. If however the drive is empty on startup I get a bsod of type

Hi All, Following is my winxp hvm config: kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader" builder = ''hvm'' memory = 192 name = "winxp" vcpus = 2 disk = [ ''file:/media/sda6/usr/xenimgs/winxp.img,ioemu:hda,w'' ] device_model = ''/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm.debug'' cdrom=''/dev/hda'' sdl=1 boot=''d'' and

Hi All, We contributed the problem when CD-ROM was changed as follows. There was especially no comment though we confirmed the correction method. Therefore, the patch that corrects these problems is contributed. Signed-off-by: Takanori Kasai <kasai.takanori@jp.fujitsu.com> Best Regards, --- Takanori Kasai ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kasai Takanori"

Hi, for hours now, I am trying to upgrade a paravirtualized Opensuse 10.3 to 11.0. I turned it into a hvm machine, set boot="d", but I cannot get it to work. file:/os-images/opensuse_11.0_32bit.iso,xvdb:cdrom,r results in Booting from CD-Rom... CDROM boot failure code : 0002 Boot from CD-Rom failed: could not read the boot disk FATAL: No bootable device. If I change xvdb to hdc,

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Hi all, we are running two servers with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server with Xen 3.2 and two dual-core CPUs: processor : {0-3} vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 65 model name : Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2218 HE stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 2613.394 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 1 core id : 0 cpu cores : 1 fpu :

I''m trying to install OpenSuSE 10.3 as a domU on a CentOS 5.6 system running xen 3.0.3. It starts to load and then hangs: ata0 master: QEMU HARDDISK ATA-7 Hard-Disk (20480 MBytes) ata0 slave: Unknown device ata1 master: QEMU CD-ROM ATAPI-4 CD-Rom/DVD-Rom ata1 slave: Unknown device Booting from CD-Rom... ISOLINUX 3.31 0x46f43c1e Copyright (C) 1994-2005 H. Peter Anvin Loading... In

Hi, I tried to mount an audio cdrom to listen to its music. But It gives the below error. why is that ? -- [root at worldnet ~]# mount /dev/hdc /media/cdrom/ /dev/hdc: Input/output error mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only /dev/hdc: Input/output error mount: /dev/hdc: can't read superblock [root at worldnet ~]# Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya -- Thank

I am trying to install CentOS from an ISO image file but the installer does not see a CD-ROM drive. The VNC viewer works but the CentOS installer indicates "Unable to find any devices of the type needed for this installation type." Then it prompts with "[Select driver] [Use a driver disk] [Back]". I have tried several variations of the "disk" paramater, all

I have couple question about using Xen in the "real" world. My test box is a Dell Optiplex 745 with a Core 2 processor and 4 G of RAM. I am using 64 bit Centos 5 with Xen 3.03. Right now I have it set up so Dom0 is my working domain and I add other DomU for whatever tests i need to do. From what I''ve read here, this is not the best way to do things. So my first question is,

hi folks, after long trying i need some help from the big world :-) question ******** when I boot a guest system, tried debian 6.0.2 amd64 firmware, I get errors like: 1) after click install on debian 6.0.2 installer [0.642450] vbd vbd-5632: 19 xenbus_dev_probe on device/vbd/5632 [0.642911] vbd vbd-5632: failed to write error node for device/vbd/5632 (19 xenbus_dev_probe on device/vbd/5632) 2)

hi folks, after long trying i need some help from the big world :-) question ******** when I boot a guest system, tried debian 6.0.2 amd64 firmware, I get errors like: 1) after click install on debian 6.0.2 installer [0.642450] vbd vbd-5632: 19 xenbus_dev_probe on device/vbd/5632 [0.642911] vbd vbd-5632: failed to write error node for device/vbd/5632 (19 xenbus_dev_probe on device/vbd/5632) 2)

Good day to all. i have problems with cdrom hot adding code. currently i using virDomainAttachDevice with type=file, device=cdrom, dev=hdc, this code works for machine with one ide hdd and one ide cdrom, but this not work for machine with only one ide hdd, and i looking for solution to hot add cdrom to machine independent of existing devices or i need way to determinate which target device

Dear All Please be informed that I needed to mount my cdrom on my CentOS 5.2 client , but unsuccessful . I tried as the followings : #mount -t vfat /dev/cdrom-hdc /mnt/cdrom Add the following line to /etc/fstab : /dev/cdrom-hdc /mnt/cdrom vfat noauto,users,noexec,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 #mount /mnt/cdrom But I cannot see the CD content . Can you please do me favor and correct me ? Thank you in

My apologies in advance for asking such an elementary question. I called myself searching the Installation Guide and Deployment Guide, with no success. The situation is that I bought a Lite-On ATAPI iHAP122 that will not burn DVDs unless I use hdparm to turn dma off. I bought that drive because it was a rare beige drive. Until I can find a decent DVD burner and/or get a Windows machine put

Hello I have a problem with isolinux my root filesystem is a iso9660 cdrom , it wont start the init but it mounts /dev/hdc as root. Cant linux start directly from a the cdrom or is this another problem? I get this: VFS: Mounted root filesystem (iso9660) readonly Freeing unused kernel memory: 2808kb freead Warning: unable to open an intital console Kernel panic: no init found. try parsing

Hello Everyone. Well i want to write some information (not a complete backup) from my Virtual Machine to the tape drive, but the VM can''t read it. I guess i need to attach this device to the VM so it can read and write the tape driver but i don''t know how to do that, i found something similar but with a cd: # xm block-list <vm-id> –long # xm block-detach 1 5632 -f # xm