can proxmox list loop devices created on pve host?

[dfk1976]

hi,

i want to know if proxmox is able to see /dev/loop devices? the backgound is that i want to test zfs and created for that some imagefiles and created loop devices with losetup command so i can than create some zfs pools (only for testing purposes). at the moment i can't see the loop devices on the proxmox webgui and have to configure it in the shell. after the pools are created they are shown in the zfs webgui section. however you can't create zfs via webgui of loop devices. is that right or is there another way?

 

[t.lamprecht]

No, in the Webinterfaces Disk panel we only list "real" disk block devices, so loop devices won't show up.

at the moment i can't see the loop devices on the proxmox webgui and have to configure it in the shell. after the pools are created they are shown in the zfs webgui section. however you can't create zfs via webgui of loop devices. is that right or is there another way?

Yes, that exactly what's currently expected. If one want's to just play around, test setup with loop devices, one needs to use the CLI a bit more. Once the storage is setup (be it LVM, ZFS, ..) it should show up when adding it in Datacenter → Storage, though.

Our documentation describes some how-to's and step for ZFS, or LVM(-thin), so it can be used as reference if one is unsure how to create a storage over the CLI: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-sysadmin.html#_zfs_administration