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From: Mike Wray <mike.wray@hp.com>
Subject: Re: online disk addition to VM ?
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 17:30:40 +0100
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To: "Aggarwal, Vikas (OFT)" <Vikas.Aggarwal@oft.state.ny.us>
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Aggarwal, Vikas (OFT) wrote:
> Hi,
>  Can i add disks to VM online without restarting it.
>  If yes then how? Is it via xm tools?
>  
>  Do i have to do ioscan ? Will block FE support that.
> 
>  -vikas

The tools (xm and xend) support runtime adding/removing of devices,
including disks. See 'xm help vbd-create'.
But last time I looked the front-end driver side of this wasn't working for disks.

Mike