Boot physical disk within Proxmox?

[DomF]

Hi,

I have a running Proxmox server running some VM images with GPU passthru for some time. I have a desire to access an old linux installation from my old desk top pc running Centos5. I have now installed the hard disk into my server and was able to add the disk to an existing ubuntu VM in order to browser the content.

I would like to startup the the installation of Centos5 from this physical disk within Proxmox. Is this possible? If so, how do I setup a configuration to do this?

Many thanks.

 

[oguz]

Hi, check the link below. The Clonezilla LIve CD method is probably the fastest and the easiest for your situation.

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migrat...roxmox_VE_.28KVM.29_using_Clonezilla_Live_CDs

Or, you can make it into a Container instead of a VM. If you prefer that, see here.

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migrat...EN_or_other.29_to_Proxmox_VE_OpenVZ_Container

 

[jzick]

This is my config, I have a Windows VM running off of a physical disk

scsi1: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SSD_60GB_SSFA1871700267,size=58615704K,ssd=1

 

[DomF]

Thanks for both tips. I was able to boot the Centos 5.1 physical drive in proxmox to some extent.

It went through the Centos splash screen and got to a point where it was reading Physical volumes and said:
Volume group "VolGroup00" not found
mount: could not find filesystem 'dev/root'
setuproot: moving /dev/failed: No such file or directory
...
From that point it was doing a boot loop.

Is this to do with proxmox device naming vda/sda? Is there any else I could try?