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Possible values of the parameter are strings in one of the following forms:

• Physical disk

  •  "\\.\PhysicalDrive<X>", where X is 0, 1, … 
    Be careful not to destroy all the information from the disk dedicated to CHARON VM by mistake. 
    These disks must not be formatted by the host OS. 
    Example:

    set PKA container[0]="\\.\PhysicalDrive1"

    .

• Physical disk by its WWID 

  • "\\.\PhysicalDrive(DevID=XXX-...-XXXX)"
    

    Be careful not to destroy all the information from the disk dedicated to CHARON VM by mistake.

    These disks must not be formatted by the host OS.

    DevID addresses the target physical disk by its WWID (hexadecimal 128-bit identifier assigned to the disk drive by its manufacturer/originator).

    Example:

    Div class small set PKA container[100]="\\.\PhysicalDrive(DevID=6008-05F3-0005-2950-BF8E-0B86-A0C7-0001)"

    .

• iSCSI disks
  • "\\.\PhysicalDrive(iScsiTarget = <iSCSI target>, LUN = <LUN number>)"
    

    iScsiTarget addresses the disk by its iSCSI target name.

    LUN specifies LUN on connected iSCSI disk.

    Example:

    Div class small set PKA container[200]="\\.\PhysicalDrive(iScsiTarget=iqn.2008-04:iscsi.charon-target-test1, LUN= 1)"

    .

• dddSCSI device unknown to Windows for direct mapping, for example, a SCSI disk or tape reader

  • "\\.\Scsi<N>:<X>:<Y>:<Z>" 
    The values of N, X, Y and Z can be collected using special utility "Host Device Check" included in the CHARON distributive - or manually by investigation of the devices connected to CHARON host in the "Device Manager" applet.
    
    

    Parameter	Description
    N	A logical number assigned by host operating system (Microsoft Windows) to logical or host’s physical storage resource such as physical SCSI HBA
    X	An internal SCSI bus number (usually 0) on host’s physical SCSI HBA
    Y	A SCSI ID of physical SCSI target device attached to host’s physical SCSI HBA
    Z	A logical unit number inside physical SCSI target device attached to host’s physical SCSI HBA

    Example: 

    set PKA container[202]="\\.\Scsi1:0:1:0"

    .

•  Floppy drive

  • "\\.\A:"

  • "\\.\B:"

    Example:

    set PKA container[300]="\\.\A:"

    .

• CDROM device

  • "\\.\CdRom<X>", where X is 0, 1, … 

    Example:

    set PKA container[400]="\\.\CdRom0"

    .

• ISO file for reading distribution CD-ROM image
  • [<drive>":\"<path-name>"\"]<file-name>[".iso”]  
    Mapping may also include the full path (recommended), for example: "C:\My disks\vms_distribution.iso"  

    Example:

    set PKA container[600]="C:\My disks\vms_distribution.iso"

    .

• File representing a physical disk of the HP Alpha system (disk image)

  • [<drive>":\"<path-name>"\"]<file-name>[".vdisk"] 
    These files can be created from scratch with "MkDisk" utility. Data and OS disks backups are transferred from the original system via tapes or network and restored into these container files.   
    Mapping may also include the full path (recommended), for example: "C:\My disks\my_boot_disk.vdisk"   
    Example: 
    

    set PKA container[401]="tru64-v51-system.vdisk"

    .

  File representing the tape (tape image)

  • [<drive>":\"<path-name>"\"]<file-name>".vtape" 
    The container-file to which an emulated tape drive is mapped is created automatically when the emulator starts, and when the device is accessed from within the guest operating system.

    We recommend specifying the full path to the container-file, for example: "C:\MyTapes\backup.vtape"

    Example:

    set PKA container[500]="E:\Tapes\backup.vtape"

    .

    How the Emulator Maps Guest-OS Operations to the Virtual Tape Drive

    Guest-OS Operation	Emulator Action
    Open device for writing	Create a container file if necessary; open for writing and lock the container file
    Open device for reading	Create a container file if none exists. open for reading and lock container file
    Unload (eject) tape from drive	Close a container file if open and unlock it - this allows copy/move/delete operations on CHARON host