Re: how share image catalog between partitions -- MIDRANGE-L

Host is i 7.1 (face plant).

Yes that's yer problem. So the only option with the old releases is to specifically limit what you don't want to share and the default is share all. If you do limit some devices though, as soon as you create another OPTVRTnn it will be instantly shared!!

And FYI we NEVER share optical or tape on the same NWSD as disk. I'll let you noodle why that might be.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.

On 2/3/2018 10:06 AM, Steve Richter wrote:

terrific. thank you.

I was looking at the wrong optical drive. ran DSPOPT DEV(OPT02) on the
client partition and it showed the IMGCLG mounted to OPTVRT01 in the HOST
partition.

Which I guess makes sense. The host partition only has the OPT01 device.
The client partition has both OPT01 and OPT02.

When I created the partition I ran CRTNWSD like the instructions said to
do. The HOST is V7R1 so there is no ALWDEVRSC parameter. Meaning all
devices are mapped to the client partition?

CRTNWSD NWSD(ICLIENT1) RSRCNAME(CTL05) TYPE(*GUEST *OPSYS) +

ONLINE(*YES) VRYWAIT(*NOWAIT) SHUTDTIMO(31) +

PARTITION(*NONE) PTNNBR(2) CODEPAGE(437) MSGQ(*JOBLOG) +

POOL(*BASE) TCPPORTCFG(*NONE) TCPRTE(*NONE) +

TCPHOSTNAM(*NWSD) TCPDMNNAME(*SYS) TCPNAMSVR(*SYS) +

RSTDDEVRSC(*NONE) IPLSRC(*PANEL) IPLSTMF(*NONE) +

IPLPARM(*NONE) PWRCTL(*NO) SRVOPT(*NONE) TEXT('IBM i +

Client partition using LPAR ID2')

CRTNWSD ALWDEVRSC(XXX)

ADDNWSSTGL NWSSTG(V7R3) NWSD(ICLIENT1) DYNAMIC(*YES) ACCESS(*UPDATE) +

DRVSEQNBR(1)

On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 9:34 PM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Check your NWSDs. On there are two parms:
ALWDEVRSC
and
RSTDEVRSC

You may use one or the other. Normally we use the ALWDEVRSC parm and in
there put in the resource name of the virtual optical. And BE VERY CLEAR
that is the RESOURCE name not the Device name. So do DSPDEVD OPTVRT01 and
look at the resource name, it might match and it might not but that is what
goes into the ALWDEVRSC parm.

That resource shows up on the guest as the next available optical drive.
It shows up as OPT01 or OPT02 or .... as it doesn't know that behind that
is a virtual drive or a physical drive.

Hope thet helps!

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.

On 2/2/2018 7:46 PM, Steve Richter wrote:

how to enable an image catalog in the base partition to be used as an
optical device by a 2nd IBM i partition?

I have a virtual optical device in the HOST partition. The device type is
632B. That device is named OPTVRT01 It's status is *ACTIVE. And an
image catalog is loaded to that device.

Should I see an type 632C optical device in the IBM i client partition?
When I WRKCFGSTS *DEV in the client partition I only see OPT01. No
virtual optical devices.

I installed the LIC in the client partition. Then installed the operating
system. But the install of the OS had some problems. So I would like to
GO
LICPGM and install all from the image catalog. But how to access the
virtual optical device of the HOST partition from the CLIENT partition?

thanks,

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