where did I see the openvz stuff for the hdd - on these very forums - somewhere! - though I admit that even today I can't locate them again, back when I posted my original post, that was all I could find... arghh! I'll continue to look and will let you know when I find it again - sorry!
http://www.proxmox.com/forum/showthread.php?p=9500
This will show you how to enable a physical ide or sata drive so it is accesible from the guest OS. It's really very very easy - I use mine for much the same as yours, a 1TB physical drive that contains the sites/mail/etc, whilst the server...
Is there a wishlist for features of the gui/proxmox, I would like to see some kind of portforwarding from the host to the guest system, this way a single external IP could resolve on the host (port dependant) to various guest systems. This way an apache server could run on port 80, mail on 25...
Re: How to access physical hdd from fully virtualized machine (solved)
Thanks for the quick reply, I'd read elsewhere of support being excellent here - I can now agree, a straight to the point reply, that answered my question and got the job done :)
The solution was as you suggested in the...
I have installed Debian via ISO as a fully virtualized machine, I've now added a second harddrive to the system (/dev/sdbx which would usually mount as /var/www) and would like access it as a standard physical hdd from the virtualised machine.
I've seen some mention of this on the forum when...
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