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Date:      Thu, 17 Dec 2015 18:23:20 +1000
From:      Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
To:        Sergey Manucharian <sm@ara-ler.com>
Cc:        Anish <akgupt3@gmail.com>, FreeBSD virtualization <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: CDROM options in bhyve
Message-ID:  <567270F8.80102@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20151216194045.GJ9504@debian.ara-ler.com>
References:  <20151216043720.GB22018@dendrobates.araler.com> <CALnRwMSi5FdsYCDS=rZs%2BpQK0qv9NYkL5kiW8W%2Bb0hBq5k12SQ@mail.gmail.com> <20151216194045.GJ9504@debian.ara-ler.com>

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Hi Sergey,

> Yes, it is clear how to do at boot time. I'd like to be able to change
> it AFTER the guest is up and running.

  bhyve doesn't offer any type of dynamic device reconfiguration at the 
moment.

> By the way, for Windows guest I'm using AHCI, not virtio (per the
> instructions):
>
> ... -s 4,ahci-cd,$CD ...
>
> I don't see any device created (I'm not sure what's the possible name though).

  It should be a 'D' drive. Appended is a list from a w2k16 VM, with a 
FreeBSD ISO on the ahci-cd drive (so it isn't bootable). You can also 
view this graphically using Windows Administrative Tools -> System 
Information -> Components -> CDROM.

later,

Peter.

C:\Windows\system32>diskpart 

 

Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.10514 

 

Copyright (C) 1999-2013 Microsoft Corporation. 

On computer: WIN2016 

 

DISKPART> list volume 

 

   Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status 
Info
   ----------  ---  -----------  -----  ----------  -------  --------- 
--------
   Volume 0     D   11_0_CURREN  CDFS   CD-ROM       211 MB  Healthy 

   Volume 1     C   Windows      NTFS   Partition     29 GB  Healthy 
Boot
   Volume 2                      FAT32  Partition    400 MB  Healthy 
System
 





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