Virtual media shelf

摘要

A method and system for providing a guest with virtual media that can be read by the guest with an emulated media drive. A hypervisor hosted by a computer system presents a guest-to-host channel to a guest in the computer system. The hypervisor receives content from the guest via the guest-to-host channel, and then receives a request from the guest indicating that the guest is to read the content. The hypervisor provides the content for the guest to read by emulating a media drive and an insertion of removable virtual media. The removable virtual media contains the content and is readable by the guest with the emulated media drive.

主权项

1. A method, implemented by a computer system, comprising:
presenting, by a hypervisor hosted by the computer system, a guest-to-host channel to a guest of a plurality of guests running on the computer system, the guest having a guest virtual disk, each of the plurality of guests comprising a guest operating system; receiving, by the hypervisor, content from the guest via the guest-to-host channel, wherein the guest running on the computer system does not intend to store the content on the guest virtual disk, the content to be stored and managed by the hypervisor in a memory area associated with the guest in the computer system, the guest having no direct access to the memory area; receiving, by the hypervisor, a request from the guest indicating that the guest is to perform at least one operation on the content; and providing, by a processing device executing the hypervisor, the content for the guest to perform the at least one operation, wherein providing the content for the guest comprises emulating a media drive and an insertion of removable virtual media, the removable virtual media containing the content and being accessible to the guest via the media drive.