Unable to attach a cdrom device to guest domain
Issue
It is impossible to block attach a cdrom device to a PV guest domain if the dom0 is running RHEL 5.6.
- Install RHEL 5.6 with Xen Hypervisor.
- Install a PV guest domain named "domu" using virt-manager (could be RHEL 5.6 or RHEL 5.5)
- Put a CD/DVD into DVD/CD drive
- Try following command,
# virsh attach-disk domu /dev/cdrom xvde
or
# xm block-attach domu /dev/cdrom /dev/xvde
Although The attach-disk
or block-attach
command returns without error. The device /dev/xvde
isn't created in guest domain.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6
- kernel-xen 2.6.18-238.el5
- Xen
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