Quoting from http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.xen.user/48741:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Has anyone worked out a way of accessing a CDROM from a Windows guest
while
>> using the GPLPV drivers?
>>
>> I don''t really mind whether access is mapped to the physical
device or an ISO
>> image, as long as I can change the media without having to reboot the
domU.
>>
>> My configuration:
>>
>> dom0 = CentOS 5.3, Xen 3.3.1
>> domU = Windows Server 2008 64-bit, GPLPV version 0.10.0.69
>>
>> Tried the following disk specs in the domU config - with the same
result:
>>
>> disk = [ ''phy:/dev/cciss/c0d0p3,xvda,w'',
''phy:/dev/hda,hdc:cdrom,r'' ]
>> disk = [ ''phy:/dev/cciss/c0d0p3,xvda,w'',
''file:/iso/cdrom.iso,hdc:cdrom,r'' ]
>>
>> What I can see under Windows is
>>
>> * a yellow exclamation mark in Device Manager on device "Intel
82371SB PCI Bus
>> Master IDE Controller"
>>
>> * two devices "Xen Block Device Driver" under Storage
Controllers
>>
>> * no sign of a CDROM drive in either Explorer or Disk Management
>>
> Can you upgrade to 3.4.1? All of these problems are solved there.
>
> James
Is there another way around this with the Xen 3.2-1 available in Debian?
I''m trying to stay with the packages available in lenny/stable, and
having to mix packages from the other repositories is not a clean solution.
I''m hitting this on both 0.10.0.98 and 0.10.0.86 of the GPLPV drivers
release. Might an older release suffice, or does this just indicate that GPLPV
is not appropriate if we wish to continue to use the Xen 3.2-1 hypervisor found
in Lenny?
Thanks!,
--J
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