dmesg / virtual optical drives

[bob.hope]

Hi everyone,
Please bear with me, new proxmox user:

After going through the installation procedure.
Then installing the proxmox ubuntu minimal template.
I cannot get dmesg to report information within the new vm machine.
To then identify the optical drive attached to the system.
I'm aware that the drive will be a virtual one.

If anyone is able to shed some light on this that would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

 

[tom]

Hi everyone,
Please bear with me, new proxmox user:

After going through the installation procedure.
Then installing the proxmox ubuntu minimal template.
I cannot get dmesg to report information within the new vm machine.
To then identify the optical drive attached to the system.
I'm aware that the drive will be a virtual one.

If anyone is able to shed some light on this that would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

If you use a Container VM:
Follow this thread from the openVZ user list.

If you use KVM VM:
you can add ISO images as cdrom like CDroms on physical machines.

Logs: if you are on the detail configuration page you have a Log menu item on the left showing the "Boot/init" logs from starting up process of the container.

 

[bob.hope]

virtual dvd+rw access for backup-manager

Hi Tom,

Thanks for your reply,
This 'subject' is the reason for needing complete access to the virtual drive.
Identified, hda as the dvd+rw, however am unable to see this device in dev directory. Will need to create a mount point for the virtual drive, hda but unable to see how I can link across to this.

If the device within the proxmox environment is hda 'syslogs' then would it automatically have a virtual drive name within the container? ubuntu.minimal.8.04.

Again any help is appreciated.

Thanks again.

 

[tom]

Hi Tom,

Thanks for your reply,
This 'subject' is the reason for needing complete access to the virtual drive.

did you get the thread link? if you run a container, there is no virtual hardware.

 

[bob.hope]

did you get the thread link? if you run a container, there is no virtual hardware.

I feel that you are possibly answering the following question, but here goes;

So to confirm there is no virtual hardware, - maybe I am using the wrong terminology. Is there a way of having access to the dvd+rw drive for backup purposes? I would like to use backup-manager to write to the dvdrw drive, within the container vm?

Thanks for the prompt reply.

 

[dietmar]

Please take a look at the vzctl manual page (man vzctl), section "Device access management".

Something like '--devnodes hda:r' should work.

- Dietmar

 

[dietmar]

But mounting does not work, because:

http://forum.openvz.org/index.php?t=msg&th=1670

- Dietmar

 

[bob.hope]

Magic

Thanks for your guidance.
Got there in the end.