I have installed guests from DVD iso images with the whole install available on the one image. That worked fine. What if I only have multiple CD iso images (or multiple physical CDs)? Is there a way to make the guest installer think you''ve swapped CDs when it asks you to do so? Just curious (at the moment - might need to know someday :-). _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Have you tried exporting the physical CD-ROM to the Guest VM? With this line: disk = [ ''phy:/dev/sdb7,hda,w'', '',hdc:cdrom,r''] and with the CD in the CD drive. Hopefully the commands to do the eject for swapping CD gets transmitted to the physical CD-ROM. On Mon, 2006-18-12 at 18:10 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:> I have installed guests from DVD iso images with the whole > install available on the one image. That worked fine. > > What if I only have multiple CD iso images (or multiple > physical CDs)? Is there a way to make the guest installer > think you''ve swapped CDs when it asks you to do so? > > Just curious (at the moment - might need to know someday :-). > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hi Tom,>I have installed guests from DVD iso images with the whole > install available on the one image. That worked fine. > > What if I only have multiple CD iso images (or multiple > physical CDs)? Is there a way to make the guest installer > think you''ve swapped CDs when it asks you to do so?It is possible to install it from multiple iso images. But it is not possible to change physical CDROM by this method. The function to change media by the xm command(xm block-configure) seems not to have been supported yet. I installed it as follows. (1) To change the install-medium, I pressed CTRL+ALT+2. It changes into qemu-dm console. (2) To eject CD-ROM, I executed the following commands on Dom0 kernel. Dom0> eject /dev/cdrom I replaced the CD-ROM medium. (3) To recognize the change of CD-ROM, I executed the following commands on Qemu. Qemu> change hdc /disc2.iso It was confirmed as follows that CD-ROM had been recognized. Qemu> info block hdc : type=cdrom removable=1 locked=0 file=/disc2.iso ro=1 drv=raw (4) I pressed CTRL+ALT+1 to return to the Linux-installation. (5) To continue Linux-installtion, I pressed OK button. Thanks -- Takanori Kasai _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users