[SOLVED] Access a drive/folder from all vms

[markmiles2k]

Hi all, I just installed proxmox on a new machine and I have some questions.

My goal is set a NAS with a TrueNAS vm where I can have my personal data, also have some other vms on proxmox where I can test multiple OS and services but accessing the data on the TrueNas vm. So for example I have my photo library in TrueNas but i would like to run a separate vm with a selfhosted googlephotos-like service (photoprism) and feed the service from the photo library on TrueNas.

My setup is a Proliant Microserver Gen 10 + and 4 drives, one for proxmox and vms and the other 3 only for data. My initial idea was to have a drive shared with all vms which looks like is not a good idea (https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/shared-disk-between-vms.32282/) ,but if I can have the truenas shared folders available for the other vms would be great, so far I haven't found a solution for this second option, ¿can you please point me to a tutorial or the steps to get this?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Pifouney]

Hello,

First og all, you 've missenderstood the topic you've linked.

They want to make an Internat Virtual Disk shared by configfile. And no, without capabilities in virtualization /storage, you can forguot them really fastly.

Now, you wanna another way: you want to let's access to yours Nas Shared Folders for your other VMs.

In this case, on the VM Nas, you only need to share via NFS or CIFS/SMB your datas folders.
But, for nfs/cifs/smb, please ask to google, not here

 

[markmiles2k]

Hi, thanks for your reply, after i posted this question I realized that my approach to share files between vms was not correct since I wanted to share the drive itself like if it was a USB drive to move between computers but the most logical way to share data between vms in my case is through shared folders which is what I have running and working perfectly fine.

Regards.

 

[Pifouney]

Hi, thanks for your reply, after i posted this question I realized that my approach to share files between vms was not correct since I wanted to share the drive itself like if it was a USB drive to move between computers but the most logical way to share data between vms in my case is through shared folders which is what I have running and working perfectly fine.

Regards.

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