Re: [Xen-users] adding fourth device to pvhvm config causes DomU launch fail @ "device_disk_add: device already exists in xenstore" ?

["Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2016-02-22 11:44, suse.dev@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016, at 08:30 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > AFAICT there's some quirk on Linux when running as a PVHVM guest, and
> > the CD device always has to be emulated. The reason behind this seem to
> > be that using a PV CD on older Xen versions was broken:
> Thanks, I've got a working solution ... still with some 'guesses'.  TBH, it's 
> pretty confusing even reading the docs.
>
> It'd be MUCH easier to be able to just use all xvdX, and be done with it.  But, 
> I don't at all know if that's even possible :-/
For what it's worth, it is possible to pass an ISO image through as a PV 
disk, it just won't show up as a CD-ROM drive.  I actually do this on 
occasion when bootstrapping PV domains.

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