[Users] DVD burning in a VE
Daniel Pittman
daniel at rimspace.net
Sun Aug 5 21:40:01 EDT 2007
Steve Hodges <shodges at iinet.net.au> writes:
> Is it possible to access /dev/hdc from a VE?
>
> One of my environments (the central backup server) needs to be able to
> burn collections of backups to a dvd.
>
> I tried to solve this by creating the device in the VE (mknod -m 660
> /dev/hdc b 22 0) but I still get a permission error;
>
> It tells me: unable to open64("/dev/hdc",O_RDONLY): Permission denied
>
> Ir all works fine outside the VE.
>
> I suspect this may be something I can't do in a VE, but I thought I'd
> ask :-)
You can -- see the 'devices' and 'devnodes' settings in vzctl.
The process is that you grant access to specific devices to a specific
VE and, once that is done, the kernel allows them to access the device
directly.
Regards,
Daniel
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