[#153] Hdd serial number.

[dragon2611]

Please consider supporting adding a HDD serial number in the .conf files, or at least randomly generating one.

I was able to do it via the args option but it would have been a lot cleaner if I could have just put ,serial= in the config file

http://forum.rockstor.com/t/proxmox-serial-number-passthrough/319/4

In My case I was passing through the physical drive so I just copied it's Serial number.

 

[wbumiller]

There's already a request at: https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=153

 

[parasit]

Perfect ))
And how time I need to get new version of kvm??

 

[wbumiller]

It's already there, the ticket was old ;-)

 

[dragon2611]

Please excuse me if this is a stupid question, but at what point does the changes in Git get pushed into the next beta release?

Also what will the expected format be is it literally a case of adding ,serial= at the end of the line of config for the virtual device?

 

[t.lamprecht]

It is included in the final release of PVE4 and yes, you're correct. Add it to the virtual drive in the config with, e.g.:

[...]
virtio0: local:100/vm-100-disk-1.qcow2,cache=writeback,size=32G,serial=XXXX-YYYY-YOURSERIAL
[...]

 

[dragon2611]

Opps missed the announcement

Edit: Updated, working nicely thanks

 

[Marinerdevil]

Not working out for me....

virtio0: local:100/vm-100-disk-1.qcow2,cache=writeback,size=1863G,serial=WDC_WD20EZRX-00DC0B0_WD-WMC1T1453223



trying to pass to rockstor but rockstor only sees 100GB



any help would be much appreciated.

ooops- running PVE 4.1

 

[Marinerdevil]

BOOOM! got it working thanks to the guys over at rockstor

The correct syntax seems to be-

"virtio0: /dev/sdc,cache=writeback,size=1863G,serial=WDC_WD20EZRX-00DC0B0_WD-WMC1T1453223"

 

[alatteri]

This fails if the serial number contains spaces, which is what many drives have.

example:

serial=' kjhgfd21'
or
serial=" kjhgfd21"

Proxmox will invalidate and remove the drive from a VM

Bug #153.

It is included in the final release of PVE4 and yes, you're correct. Add it to the virtual drive in the config with, e.g.:

[...]
virtio0: local:100/vm-100-disk-1.qcow2,cache=writeback,size=32G,serial=XXXX-YYYY-YOURSERIAL
[...]

 

[likebugs]

Hello,

I can't pass serial number to VM with configure:

virtio1: /dev/sdb,size=457344M,serial=36c81f660d1d84600210e06ac0762a3ca
virtio2: /dev/sdc,size=457344M,serial=36c81f660d1d84600210e06b607f65658

I would appreciate any help about it.

 

[dietmar]

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