Opened 13 years ago
Last modified 13 years ago
#7694 new enhancement
Add SCSI device passthrough support
| Reported by: | linuxrulez | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | virtual disk | Version: | VirtualBox 3.2.10 |
| Keywords: | raw scsi tape passthru | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | other |
Description
Unable to register raw SCSI tape device (used for controlling wide format print / scan mode).
VBoxManage -nologo internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename scanner.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/st0 Error opening the raw disk '/dev/st0': VERR_DEV_IO_ERROR The raw disk vmdk file was not created
Right now VmWare ALREADY supports this type of SCSI passthru (as with LPT passthru)
Change History (1)
comment:1 by , 13 years ago
| Guest type: | Windows → other |
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| Host type: | Linux → other |
| priority: | blocker → minor |
| Summary: | Unable to register SCSI tape device → Add SCSI device passthrough support |
| Type: | defect → enhancement |
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SCSI device passthrough is a completely different thing. VirtualBox has some really limited support for it on Linux but it is not exposed because it works only on Linux and is _not_ well tested so you are on your own if something doesn't work or destroys the data on the device. You can access the feature with the following commands:
where N is the number of the generic SCSI device node for the tape device. /dev/st0 might work but I'm not sure. You can find the source under http://www.virtualbox.org/browser/trunk/src/VBox/Devices/Storage/DrvSCSIHost.cpp in case you are interested to enhance the support. Patches are welcome!