Optical devices

Optical devices can be exported by the Virtual I/O Server. This topic gives information about what types of optical devices are supported.

The Virtual I/O Server supports exporting optical SCSI devices. These are referred to as a virtual SCSI optical devices. Virtual optical devices can be backed by DVD drives or files. Depending on the backing device, the Virtual I/O Server will export a virtual optical device with one of following profiles:

DVD-ROM
DVD-RAM

Virtual optical devices that are backed by physical optical devices can be assigned to only one client logical partition at a time. In order to use the device on a different client logical partition, it must first be removed from its current logical partition and reassigned to the logical partition that will use the device.