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Date:	Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:41:08 -0700 (PDT)
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Why not just give the domu a default iso to use and when you want to change
the iso use the xm block-reconfigure. 


James Harper wrote:
> 
> Is there a way I can configure a DomU with an empty CDROM? Using
> /dev/null or just leaving it blank doesn't seem to work. The best I can
> come up with is an empty iso (mkisofs with an empty directory) and use
> that by default until I block-reconfigure a real image into its place.
> Leaving the cdrom off altogether and using block-attach doesn't work as
> Windows doesn't pick it up. It used to work with GPLPV but I don't
> install a PV driver for the CDROM anymore so that eject etc works on a
> real CDROM drive.
> 
> Any other suggestions?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> James
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