On 07/06/2011 07:17 PM, Steve Campbell wrote: > > > On 7/6/2011 10:42 AM, PLD wrote: >> On 06/07/2011 13:03, Steve Campbell wrote: >>> I'm still trying to get xen working before Centos 6 and KVM just for >>> experience. I seem to be able to do most of what I what with VMs, but >>> I've run into another problem with CD/DVDs. >>> >>> I can get a DVD mounted on the host domain just fine, but when I try and >>> attach-block to a running guest VM, the entire server reboots. I've >>> tried many different commands versions based on what Google finds, but >>> I'm not getting anywhere. I end up using scp to copy the data from the >>> host to the guest. >>> >>> The guest is basically defined as a full virtualized domain. I'm using >>> /dev/scd0 as the device (it's listed on the mount command) as both >>> frontend and backend devices. And I've tried a few other devices as >>> well, but the same result. >> >> This should be easy. Use attach-disk, not attach-block. Unmount on the >> host before mounting on the domU. See the attach-disk commands in my >> reply to one of your other mails. The device is /dev/sr0 on SL6. Give >> it a go, and post your exact commands. >> BTW, I gave up waiting for Centos-6 long ago. SL6 works just fine with >> KVM. Haven't tried Xen on it yet - my Xen domains are on F8. >> >> > > Google, in this case, was not my friend, since it pointed me to > attach-block instead of attach-disk. Rereading the previous emails, I > see where I was errant in using what google was suggesting. > > Thanks for the help, all. The fact that the server reboots is still a pretty serious bug though. It doesn't matter that you issued the wrong command the system should never ever do that. Regards, Dennis