Add internal hard drives to Proxmox for VMs to use

[synden]

Like the titles says. How do I mount my internal hard drives in Proxmox for VMs to use?

Right now I've mounted the internal hard drives on a Samba/NFS VM Server that shares the content on the hard drives to the other VMs.
But is it possible and better to mount the hard drives directly to Proxmox and from there share the content on the drives?
And if so, how do I do it?

Best regards!

 

[mir]

It is possible but you will not be able to migrate such a VM.

 

[synden]

It is possible but you will not be able to migrate such a VM.

That's no problem. I only have one computer with Proxmox and VMS

I gave two NTFS drives and two ext4 drives. And my Samba/NFS server kan read all four and my plex server and see them so I can watch plex. But for some reasons it crashes some times. I dont know if it's because I have a Sambaserver sharing the drives and it would work better if Proxmox shares the drives instead to the VMS. Maybe I just need to reformat my two NTFS drives to ext4. But NTFS shouldn't be a problem?

So which is best, keep Sambaserver mounting the drives or let Proxmox mount them instead and then share them to VMs? And how do I mount them in Proxmox so the vms can see them and mount them through Proxmox?

 

[mir]

Does your motherboard and CPU support iommu (AMD: AMD-Vi or Intel: VT-d)?

 

[synden]

The computer's CPU http://ark.intel.com/sv/products/777...Cache-3_50-GHz
"Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I / O = No" (If that makes any sense.)

Don't know the name of the motherboard atm

 

[mir]

With no VT-d support pass-through is not an option.

PS. Your link is broken.

 

[synden]

With no VT-d support pass-through is not an option.

PS. Your link is broken.

aah, okey. then I need to use like a Sambaserver VM to share the hard drives to other VMs(like I have now)? But that shouldn't be a problem?

New link: ark.intel.com/products/77769/Intel-Core-i3-4330-Processor-4M-Cache-3_50-GHz

 

[mir]

If you run the samba server on Linux I would drop using NTFS since NTFS is a second class citizen on Linux. Also ext4 performs an order of magnitude better than NTFS, even when running on Windows.

 

[synden]

If you run the samba server on Linux I would drop using NTFS since NTFS is a second class citizen on Linux. Also ext4 performs an order of magnitude better than NTFS, even when running on Windows.

aah okey. So Windows can also detect and show ext4-drives?
Is it possible that the NTFS-drives are the reason why the VM or Promox sometimes crashes? Or is it because I mount the drive directly to a VM instead of to Proxmox and share it that why? Sharing through VM shouldn't be a problem, right?

Have another thread on this forum with a printscreen when Proxmox crashes, but haven't got any replies yet
Now though it seems to be a little bit more stable.

 

[mir]

If you use samba to share a drive windows will not know the actual file system. For windows the drive looks like a remote share using cifs.

 

[synden]

If you use samba to share a drive windows will not know the actual file system. For windows the drive looks like a remote share using cifs.

aah okey. Yeah I can access the both NTFS and the ext4 drvies on my Windows machine. I have the Samba/NFS server on an Ubuntu server.

 

[jim.bond.9862]

I had the same question my self. Ia currently running opensuse 13.1 server with xen 4.3 and samba shares
That is I have a xen enabled kernel opensuse13.1 running as dom0 that is providong a vm server functions(not currently doong anything usefull at the moment) and also samba shares file server function for network and my htpc. I am using btrfs on my data drives. Can I setup something like it using proxmos?

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