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VixMntapi_OpenDiskSet()
Last Updated December 16, 2024

Opens the set of disks for mounting on a Windows virtual machine. All the disks for a dynamic volume or Logical Disk Manager (LDM) must be opened together.
VixError
VixMntapi_OpenDiskSet(VixDiskLibHandle diskHandles[],
                      int numberOfDisks,
                      uint32 openMode,
                      VixDiskSetHandle *diskSet);
The
VixDiskLibHandle
 type, defined in
vixDiskLib.h
, is the same as for the
diskHandle
 parameter in the
VixDiskLib_Open()
 function, but here it is an array instead of a single value.
Parameters:
  • diskHandles
     [in] Array of handles to open disks.
  • numberOfDisks
     [in] Number of disk handles in the array.
  • openMode
     [in] Must be 0 (zero).
  • diskSet
     [out] Disk set handle to be filled in.
If you want to mount disks on a Windows system, first call
VixDiskLib_Open()
 for every disk, then use the returned disk handle array to call
VixMntapi_OpenDiskSet()
, which returns a disk set handle.
If you want to mount disks on a Linux system, call the function
VixMntapi_OpenDisks()
, which opens and creates the disk set handle, all in one function.

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