Oh thanks. I didn't know about this. Right now its mounted on proxmox and 2 Ubuntu VM's at the same time and I was able to access without much challenges. I though this virtio driver will help create an abstraction to share drives, just like sharing a CPU across VM's. Didn't know it will create...
I tried passing the whole device. It asks me to format which I cannot do because it has data in it. I tried hardware passthrough like you mentioned in the link but I want to be able to access the drive across VM's (windows and linux) same time.
ya thats a bummer. I have data in that drive so I cannot format it. USB passthrough works but I want to be able to connect the drive across different VM's (windows and linux) so I cannot use USB passthrough
Not sure if someone is still looking for a better solution, I find the partition using lsblk and then in the VM config file I mount using virtio. Add something like this below and it will show up in the VM too. The challenge I have is, this works in all my linux based systems but doesn't work...
Its not showing up in the "list volume" command.
For connecting to windows, did I do this right? Or should I configure it differently on the proxmox config file.
virtio2: /dev/sdb1
I have a weird situations going on. I have a usb passport drive which is formatted with NTFS and I have connected to my proxmox server. when I do lsblk on proxmox its mounted at "/dev/sdb1".
When I configure a VM in the config file, I have entered the below line in my config file.
virtio2...
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