Re: [Xen-users] Using physical disk in HVM

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I'm trying to use physical disks as virtual disks in HVM domains.
> But I couldn't.
>
> I'm using cs10508 of xen-unstable.hg.
>
> When I use
> disk = [ 'phy:sda5,ioemu:hda,w' ]
> in conf file, creating HVM domain says, I need to use 'file' modifier if
> I use 'ioemu'.
> So, I changed it to
> disk = [ 'phy:sda5,hda,w' ].

That won't work because it's the paravirtualised syntax, and you presumably 
aren't running a Xen-aware driver in the guest.

> But HVM window doesn't pop up.
>
> Did you guys solve this problem?
> Can't I use physical disk partitions for virtual disks?

Not used VT myself, but have you tried:

disk = [ 'file:/dev/sda5,ioemu:hda,w' ]

After all, on unix everything is a file ;-)

Cheers,
Mark

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