Sharing A USB WIth Multiple Virtual Machines At Once

[mikerohan]

I am trying to share a USB across multiple virtual machines at once but, when its enabled it only seems to be visible on one virtual machine.

So far i haven't been able to find any thing on this, can some one please point me in the right direction or suggest where i am going wrong.

Thanks

 

[dcsapak]

no cannot share a usb device between multiple vms at the same time

 

[mikerohan]

So there's no way to do this at all not even iscsi or some thing else like an lvm or a directory under storage in proxmox.

 

[Lucian]

Mount it in the host or a vm, then export it via NFS or SMB and mount it as such in the other VMs.

 

[dcsapak]

So there's no way to do this at all not even iscsi or some thing else like an lvm or a directory under storage in proxmox.

are you talking about a usb storage device?

you can have a storage on an usb disk where each vm can have a disk, but you cannot share a single disk between the vms
if you want that you must do what @Lucian said

 

[mikerohan]

@dcsapak
[URL='https://forum.proxmox.com/members/lucian.51551/']@Lucian[/URL]
https://forum.proxmox.com/members/dcsapak.36072/
Ok thanks, i will look into that.
Would you recommend either of them over the other.

 

[Lucian]

If your VMs are Linux, then NFS would arguably be the easier route to take. If Windows samba would be easier, but both protocols would work eventually, regardless of OS.