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Date:      Tue, 7 May 2013 10:40:41 +0300
From:      "Victor Miasnikov" <vvm@tut.by>
To:        <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>, "Alexander Motin" <mav@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        larry.melia@ieee.org
Subject:   ATA controller and Hyper-V "synthetic storage driver" handle the IDE disks devices ( but not for the CD-ROM) Re: Hyper-V on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <A45F0063B66A43ECBA57AFCAA57676DD@local.st.by>

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Hi!

> prevent default OS driver from attaching to emulated ATA controller when Hyper-V

 Disable both primary and secondary ATA controller prevent use CD-ROM device in VM ( guest)

Because "synthetic storage driver" not handle CD-ROM devices
( IMHO, even more: Hyper-V host work with CD-ROM only as "PCI bus" device)


Best regards, Victor Miasnikov
Blog:  http://vvm.blog.tut.by/

P.S.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-virtualization/2013-April/001180.html
==
 . . .
On 23.04.2013 17:07, Larry Melia wrote:
 . . .
> Removing our ATA patches, on the other hand, results in a huge
> performance loss. This is because the root file system is managed by the
> ATA driver, which is emulated under Hyper-V. 
==

Place on IDE disk only "\boot" ( and bootloader), other on SCSI .


P.P.S.

 Larry, I'm found Youre 3 e-mail accounts, You use all 3 ?




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