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  1. J

    Mounting existing ext4 filesystem to VM

    Is your OMV configuration on the VM a completely fresh install, or a restore of the config from a previous physical machine? Is the filesystem mounted, in the place where you expect it to be? I found that OMV behaved slightly differently with virtual disks than with physical ones and the mount...
  2. J

    Mounting existing ext4 filesystem to VM

    Yes, but don't use my size value! If I remember correctly, you can leave the size parameter off and let PVE fill it in (it will do that when it loads the VM and might add some other parameters too).
  3. J

    Mounting existing ext4 filesystem to VM

    Yes. Here's the config for passing through three disks to the OMV VM: #Standard vdisk for boot/root scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci scsi0: ssd1_thinpool:vm-108-disk-0,cache=writeback,size=20G #Pass through data disks whole - these appear in the guest as /dev/vd* virtio1...
  4. J

    Mounting existing ext4 filesystem to VM

    Thanks. I read that, but wasn't clear whether it can allow the VM to directly access files on the host filesystem. I'll give it a test... also read something else on the forum that suggests one can share a whole host FS with a VM, which might be even better for OMV as it expects to manage...
  5. J

    Mounting existing ext4 filesystem to VM

    Hi, Noob question... I'm looking to move from several physical machines to one big server and several VMs. One of those physical machines is a OMV-based NAS with several ext4 disks full of data. Can I mount the ext4 filesystems to proxmox and then make them available to a VM (which will be...

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