<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> David,<o:p></o:p> I don’t know how much this will help you, as I don’t know much about your setup. I am running XP HVM guests on F7 (Moonshine) using the old fashioned text xen method (/etc/xen/auto/guest.hvm, xm create, xm destroy, etc), and I can’t change actual CDs or DVDs in my XP guests. That is to say, I think if a CD/DVD is in the drive when I start the guest and hdc:cdrom is connected to /dev/cdrom in the hvm file, the CD/DVD in the drive works, however, changing it out does not. However, if hdc:cdrom is connected to /dev/cdrom and there is no disc in the drive (or perhaps even if there is), I can ues the xm block-attach and xm block-detach, for instance:<o:p></o:p> xm block-list 2<o:p></o:p> xm block-detach 2 5632 –f<o:p></o:p> xm block-attach 2 file:///iso/lm70200.iso hdc:cdrom r<o:p></o:p> xm block-detach 2 5632 –f<o:p></o:p> xm block-attach 2 phy:/dev/cdrom hdc:cdrom r<o:p></o:p> In the above commands, I listed the block devices, determined which was the cdrom, detached it, attached an iso, used it as needed in the guest, detached the iso, and reattached the physical drive (even though it doesn’t work). I can do this over and over again. Going back to the physical device probably isn’t necessary, but I do it so I am always starting from the same point. The reason I doubt it matters is that once XP is booted, it always shows that drive, detaching it doesn’t make it disappear, and reattaching it doesn’t give it a new ID (even if scanning for hardware changes between steps). I am also fairly certain that trying to attach one iso over another isn’t sufficient. If you eject the tray on the cdrom drive from within xp, you’re done until you reboot as far as I can tell, but with the above steps, if you don’t do that, it seems to work alright. I don’t know if this will help you at all, seeing a how you more than likely use virt-install, virt-manager, etc, but I figure it can’t hurt if there is a similar process for that system. Good luck,<o:p></o:p> Dustin<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'> From: fedora-xen-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-xen-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of David Levinger Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 20:11 To: fedora-xen@redhat.com Subject: [Fedora-xen] Can you attach CDs/DVDs/HDs to an XP Guest?<o:p></o:p> </div> </div> <o:p> </o:p> Hey guys and gals,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> As the subject suggests, is it possible to block-attach a newly placed CD/DVD/HD/Img file to an XP guest? I’ve done the “normal” block-attach command and it says it has “attached” but nothing shows in the XP guest…<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> d<o:p></o:p> </div> </body> </html>