Re: Old problem with USB (Was: Re: [Xen-users] Fwd: New problem with winxp)

["Ulrich Windl" <ulrich.windl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10 Jan 2007 at 14:11, Anant Nigam wrote:

> Thanks for your reply.
> I have switched over to XEN from VMWare, so there is no point going back
> to it.
> So you said usb are not supported over XEN virtual Machine.
> Ok and what about CD/DVD..
> Are they supported by Xen Virtual Machine or not ?

I had the issue with XEN 3.0.2 that I could only open the tray (after the device
had been used once) if the device was dynamically unconfigured from all DomUs
using it. The other issue was that the device is only available to DomUs if a CD
was in the drive at the time when DomU booted. That way I learned a bit about
dynamic adding and removing of block devices ;-)

I changed to copy media to some NFS server and mount them from there. Maybe you
could export the remote CD via NFS. Won't help you for non-UNIX, but maybe
Samba/CIFS can do the thing for windows as well.

Ulrich

> I cant find relevant info after googling it.
> If you could let me know then it would be great...
> Thanks
>
> Anant
>
> >>> "Ulrich Windl" <ulrich.windl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 01/10/07 1:33 PM
> >>>
> Please don't just re-phrase your problem spüecifically if someone had
> said already
> that it had been discussed previously). Scan the arhives or Google
> instead. XEN
> Virtual machines don't have USB support yet. Maybe try WMware instead.
>
> Ulrich
>
>
> On 10 Jan 2007 at 2:53, anant wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > I am facing a similar problem, i cant access cd/dvd or pendrive over
> guest
> > operating system
> > I am having SuSE10.2 as a host and win XP as a guest.
> > Did you solved the problem dude?
> > Any ideas friends...?
> > anant
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