Re: DVD burner virtualization

Enzo Lombardi
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:27:42 -0000

James, lsscsi reports:
[13:0:0:0]   cd/dvd  Slimtype DVD A  DL8ATS    XP59  /dev/sr0
As for the kernel I am using Fedora 16 with Xen 4.1.2 out of the repository.
-e

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:09 PM, James Harper
<james.harper@bendigoit.com.au
> wrote:

> >
> > Hello all,
> > I am trying to virtualize a dvd-burner (i.e. assign the dvd-burner to
> the guest)
> > through HVM (the guest is Windows).
> > The line in the config file says:
> >         ''phy:/dev/dvdrw3,hdc:cdrom,r''
> > but on the guest side it appears as a read-only (and not perfectly
> working)
> > device.
> > I haven''t tried yet to mark it as ''w'' and I
cannot find documentation
> about the
> > disk node.
> > But the question is: is dvd-burner virtualization supported?
>
> If the DVD burner is seen by Dom0 as a SCSI device then scsi passthrough
> should allow it to work.
>
> GPLPV supports the scsi passthrough so if you are using that you might
> have some success but I''ve never actually tried it. If you try it
and it
> doesn''t work for burning, send me the details and I''ll
see if I can fix it.
>
> You do need scsi passthrough backend support in Dom0 though... what Dom0
> kernel are you using?
>
> James
>


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