Mounting ISO in VM issue : invoke-XenVBD -XenAction Insert

[Julien BANZI1709152910]

Hi everyone, 

 

I'm working on a powershell script that required to be able to unmount or mount some ISO in a particular VM.

 

No prob for the "unmounting" part with invoke-xenvbd -XenAction Eject but i'm not able to mount an ISO with the same command but with the XenAction Insert.

 

Here is my code sample :

 

$Master = Get-XenVM -Name $($XD_Master.Xen_MasterName)

 

$ISO_library = get-XenSR | Where-Object {($_.type -eq 'iso') -and $_.name_label -notmatch 'XenServer Tools'}

 

$CD = ForEach ($ISO in $ISO_Library.VDIs) {Get-XenVDI -Ref $ISO.opaque_ref | Where-Object {$_.name_label -eq 'FinalisationVDI.iso'}}

 

$VBD = $Master.VBDs | Get-XenVBD | where {($_.Type -eq 'CD')}

 

I try this command to mount the ISO but it fails...

 

Invoke-XenVBD -Uuid $VBD.uuid -XenAction Insert $CD.uuid

 

Any help please ?

 

 

[Letsibogo Ramadi]

@jbanzi I am facing the same issue, please let me know if a solution has been found 

[Tobias Kreidl]

Try something similar to this except for mounting instead of unmounting:

$vbd = get-xenserver:vm.vbds $vm.uuid|where{$_.type. -like "CD"}
invoke-xenserver:vbd.eject -vbd $vbd.uuid

Also, did you see this?: https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2014/09/10/scripting-automating-vm-operations-on-xenserver-using-powershell/

-=Tobias

[Konstantina Chremmou]

The Insert action requires the VDI's reference, not the uuid. The following should work for you:

 

PS>  Invoke-XenVBD -Uuid $vbd.uuid -XenAction Insert -VDI $cd.opaque_ref

[Thomas Subotitsch1709158008]

Hi.

Isn't it more PowerShell style to use

 

Get-XenVDI -Name "XenCenter.iso" | Invoke-XenVBD -Uuid (Get-XenVBD)[2].uuid -XenAction Insert

:-)

Greetings,

Subo

[Matthias-Schlimm]

I'm stuck on the same, to mount exiting ISO via powershell, but it doesn't work with the command 

 

 

Get-XenVDI -Name "$BootISOName" | Invoke-XenVBD -Uuid (Get-XenVBD)[2].uuid -XenAction Insert

Invoke-XenVBD : The input object cannot be bound to any parameters for the command either because the command does not take pipeline input or the input and its properties do not match any 

of the parameters that take pipeline input.

At line:1 char:35

+ Get-XenVDI -Name "$BootISOName" | Invoke-XenVBD -Uuid (Get-XenVBD)[2].uuid -XenA ...

+                                   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (XenAPI.VDI:PSObject) [invoke-XenVBD], ParameterBindingException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InputObjectNotBound,Citrix.XenServer.Commands.InvokeXenVBD

 

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ouput from Get-XenVDI -Name $BootIsoName

 

 

uuid                 : e0bda688-5519-4ace-953d-999d4f2026c1

name_label           : PVS-DHCP-D1.iso

name_description     : 

allowed_operations   : {forget, destroy, copy, snapshot}

current_operations   : {}

SR                   : XenAPI.XenRef`1[XenAPI.SR]

VBDs                 : {XenAPI.XenRef`1[XenAPI.VBD], XenAPI.XenRef`1[XenAPI.VBD]}

crash_dumps          : {}

virtual_size         : 307200

physical_utilisation : 307200

type                 : user

sharable             : False

read_only            : True

other_config         : {[content_id, 30b7a9b0-a557-ef45-7005-b0376b1f11a6]}

storage_lock         : False

location             : PVS-DHCP-D1.iso

managed              : True

missing              : False

parent               : XenAPI.XenRef`1[XenAPI.VDI]

xenstore_data        : {}

sm_config            : {}

is_a_snapshot        : False

snapshot_of          : XenAPI.XenRef`1[XenAPI.VDI]

snapshots            : {}

snapshot_time        : 01.01.1970 00:00:00

tags                 : {}

allow_caching        : False

on_boot              : persist

metadata_of_pool     : XenAPI.XenRef`1[XenAPI.Pool]

metadata_latest      : False

opaque_ref           : OpaqueRef:7ed76e36-8c9a-a13f-063f-87003a6d64ec

Changed              : True

[Konstantina Chremmou]

This is not going to work because at the moment the -VDI parameter does not accept pipeline input, and additionally it is a reference, not a VDI object.

 

The most PS-like way I can think of writing your command is:

PS> Invoke-XenVBD -VBD (Get-XenVBD)[2] -XenAction Insert -VDI (Get-XenVDI -Name "$BootISOName" | select -ExpandProperty opaque_ref)

or

PS> (Get-XenVBD)[2] | Invoke-XenVBD -XenAction Insert -VDI (Get-XenVDI -Name "$BootISOName" | select -ExpandProperty opaque_ref)

[Matthias-Schlimm]

ok, that should working, but one question again:

 

how can I use you command tu use on a single vm ? I'm connected to the XenServer host with multiple VM's running and I prefer this command on single vm only

[Konstantina Chremmou]

This should work for you:

 

PS> Get-XenVM -Name vmName | select -ExpandProperty VBDs | Get-XenVBD | where {$_.type -eq "CD"} | Invoke-XenVBD -XenAction Insert -VDI (Get-XenVDI -Name "$BootISOName" | select -ExpandProperty opaque_ref)

[Matthias-Schlimm]

yes, that works, thanks :)

[Piotr Ostrowski]

@Konstatina Chremmou Your entries were very informative!

as a suplement for this, I can trully recomend the following: https://github.com/ZachThurmond/Automated-XenServer-Labs/blob/master/AXL.ps1