RE: [Xen-users] Access to non virtual resources

["Dustin Henning" <Dustin.Henning@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

        In an HVM environment, you can pass SDx through as HDA or XVDA
(depending on the Xen version, I think XVDA may be used for HVM now, but I'm
not sure).  In a PV environment, the same could be done if PV supported
partitioned devices, but I'm not certain it does, so each partition would on
the given device would have to be included in the config.  Either way, this
is still virtual.  To actually use the device in a non-virtual way, I
believe you would have to have a separate controller that you used pci
passthrough to give to the guest.  Even in this scenario, there may be
virtualization performance implications, but I don't know.
        Dustin

From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vadim M
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 00:30
To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Xen-users] Access to non virtual resources

Hi folks,

I want to know if it possible to access real hard drive (with all it's
partitions) running the VM?

What I want to do is to boot from flash-disk and run any ISO to install on
real machine.

So some kind here are some virtualisation exists. But here may be another
approach then using VM.

Best Regards,
Vadim



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