Re: [Xen-devel] accessing a char device in xenU

[Mark Williamson <Mark.Williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Is it possible to make a scsi device invisible from xen0 and visilbe in
> xenU (i'm not talking of a whole scsi card but just one device on the card)
> ?

You can't make it invisible in dom0 but you can export it to a domU using the 
standard virtual block device configuration. i.e.:

'phy:/dev/sdb,sdb,w'

Cheers,
Mark

> > With a dvice like a tape you'd presumably only want to let one domain
> > access it at a time, perhaps with a hard interlock as to which tape is
> > in the drive. Fortunately, the bandwidth is pretty low, so it's probably
> > easiest to setup a network based soloution rather than doing something
> > Xen specific. I presume such daemons already exist (?)
>
> Sure something like amanda should work ...
>
>
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