Brandon Lamb
2010-Apr-08 19:57 UTC
[Xen-users] Multiple cdrom file-based drives in windows xp hvm?
In my vm2 config i have:
disk = [
''phy:/dev/volumes/vm2-disk,hda,w'',
''phy:/dev/volumes/vm2-swap,hdb,w'',
''phy:/dev/volumes/vm2-data,hdc,w'',
''file:/xen/images/office2007basic.iso,hdd,r'',
''file:/xen/images/printshopinstall.iso,hde,r'',
''file:/xen/images/printshopprog.iso,hdf,r'',
]
However only one disk will show up. If I comment 2 out and pick any
one, it will show up singly, but I cannot get these to all show up as
3 cdrom drives. Am I doing something wrong, or is xen somehow limited
to a single cdrom drive or what?
Using xen 3.4 and 2.6.31.12 kernel
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Pasi Kärkkäinen
2010-Apr-08 20:47 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] Multiple cdrom file-based drives in windows xp hvm?
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 12:57:55PM -0700, Brandon Lamb wrote:> In my vm2 config i have: > > disk = [ > ''phy:/dev/volumes/vm2-disk,hda,w'', > ''phy:/dev/volumes/vm2-swap,hdb,w'', > ''phy:/dev/volumes/vm2-data,hdc,w'', > ''file:/xen/images/office2007basic.iso,hdd,r'', > ''file:/xen/images/printshopinstall.iso,hde,r'', > ''file:/xen/images/printshopprog.iso,hdf,r'', > ] > > However only one disk will show up. If I comment 2 out and pick any > one, it will show up singly, but I cannot get these to all show up as > 3 cdrom drives. Am I doing something wrong, or is xen somehow limited > to a single cdrom drive or what? > > Using xen 3.4 and 2.6.31.12 kernel >I think HVM guests are limited to 4 emulated IDE devices. You might want to use GPLPV drivers in Windows.. that should release some IDE devices. (I''m not sure if GPLPV devices support cdroms). -- Pasi _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Brandon Lamb
2010-Apr-08 21:19 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] Multiple cdrom file-based drives in windows xp hvm?
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi> wrote:> On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 12:57:55PM -0700, Brandon Lamb wrote: >> In my vm2 config i have: >> >> disk = [ >> ''phy:/dev/volumes/vm2-disk,hda,w'', >> ''phy:/dev/volumes/vm2-swap,hdb,w'', >> ''phy:/dev/volumes/vm2-data,hdc,w'', >> ''file:/xen/images/office2007basic.iso,hdd,r'', >> ''file:/xen/images/printshopinstall.iso,hde,r'', >> ''file:/xen/images/printshopprog.iso,hdf,r'', >> ] >> >> However only one disk will show up. If I comment 2 out and pick any >> one, it will show up singly, but I cannot get these to all show up as >> 3 cdrom drives. Am I doing something wrong, or is xen somehow limited >> to a single cdrom drive or what? >> >> Using xen 3.4 and 2.6.31.12 kernel >> > > I think HVM guests are limited to 4 emulated IDE devices. > > You might want to use GPLPV drivers in Windows.. that should release some IDE devices. > (I''m not sure if GPLPV devices support cdroms). > > -- PasiYea I have the gplpv drivers installed. Its weird, I couldnt figure it out so instead im just building a disk image and copying all the iso''s to it and then I''ll just mount that on my windows guests and use a virtual cdrom driver to mount them _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users