CD commands

Commands for working with physical CD/DVD drives on XenServer hosts.

CD parameters

CDs have the following parameters:

Parameter Name

Description

Type

 

 

 

uuid

unique identifier/object reference for the

read only

 

CD

 

 

 

 

name-label

Name for the CD

read/write

 

 

 

name-description

Description text for the CD

read/write

 

 

 

allowed-operations

A list of the operations that can be

read only set parameter

 

performed on this CD

 

 

 

 

current-operations

A list of the operations that are currently

read only set parameter

 

in progress on this CD

 

 

 

 

sr-uuid

The unique identifier/object reference for

read only

 

the SR this CD is part of

 

 

 

 

sr-name-label

The name for the SR this CD is part of

read only

 

 

 

vbd-uuids

A list of the unique identifiers for the

read only set parameter

 

VBDs on VMs that connect to this CD

 

 

 

 

crashdump-uuids

Not used on CDs since crashdumps

read only set parameter

 

cannot be written to them

 

 

 

 

virtual-size

Size of the CD as it appears to VMs (in

read only

 

bytes)

 

 

 

 

physical-Utilization

amount of physical space that the CD

read only

 

image is currently taking up on the SR (in

 

 

bytes)

 

 

 

 

type

Set to User for CDs

read only

 

 

 

sharable

Whether or not the CD drive is sharable.

read only

 

Default is false.

 

 

 

 

read-only

Whether the CD is read-only, if false, the

read only

 

device is writable. Always true for CDs.

 

 

 

 

storage-lock

true if this disk is locked at the storage

read only

 

level

 

 

 

 

parent

Reference to the parent disk, if this CD is

read only

 

part of a chain

 

 

 

 

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