Drive passtrough

[king_pik_]

Hello newbie here,

I would like to pass into Windows VM two hard drives in RAID1 configuration (plugged into motherboard) and extra nvme SSD (not boot SSD).

I tried to install lshw but I got error “Unable to locate package lshw”.

Please give me some advice on how to make it work.

Thanks.

 

[smueller]

Hello,
please post the output of lsblk
This will show all storage devices.

Btw. you don't need to install lshw it's already installed.

 

[UdoB]

I tried to install lshw but I got error “Unable to locate package lshw”.

Is this a vanilla PVE installation or something "special"? Which version? Uptodate? pveversion?

As @smueller said, "lshw" should be installed and usable!

To verify the status you can post the full output of apt policy lshw.

 

[king_pik_]

lshw doesn’t seem to be installed.
I am running version: 8.2.2/9355359cd7afbae4 (running kernel: 6.8.4-2-pve), I downloaded it from official website.
Output of lsblk included.

 

[UdoB]

lshw doesn’t seem to be installed.

Then you just can install it ;-) apt install lshw.

It is suspicious that it is not already installed though...

PS: I know this is not your primary problem - regarding Raid1/Windows/Passthrough I can't help, sorry.

 

[gfngfn256]

It is suspicious that it is not already installed though...

I agree, however while researching the OP's missing lshw package, I made the fantastic discovery that I neither had the lshw package installed. I am 100% sure I have used it in the past, & upon searching my history I found it in history about 500 commands ago, (hard to tell how long ago that is). Installing it with apt install lshw fixed this.

I did some google searching & discover other Debian bookworm users with similar issue. Something must have changed / gone wrong somewhere.

 

[king_pik_]

So I tried to install lshw multiple times before and always got error Unable to locate package lshw. This morning I tried installing it again and it passed. I haven't done any changes and only command related to lshw that I ran was apt policy lshw.
I don't know what to think about this.

 

[smueller]

I am running version: 8.2.2/9355359cd7afbae4 (running kernel: 6.8.4-2-pve), I downloaded it from official website.

Hello,
regarding the current issues with 6.8.x-x it's recommended to install the older but working Kernel 6.5.

We have a Wiki post for that, but only in German. (Maybe Google Translate will help)
https://www.thomas-krenn.com/de/wiki/Known_Issues_Proxmox_VE_8.2
I'll do my best to translate all our Proxmox posts into English.

 

[brbaker]

Then you just can install it ;-) apt install lshw.

It is suspicious that it is not already installed though...

PS: I know this is not your primary problem - regarding Raid1/Windows/Passthrough I can't help, sorry.

It isn't suspicious; refer to the doco. It explicitly says it is not installed: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Passthrough_Physical_Disk_to_Virtual_Machine_(VM)

 

[gfngfn256]

It explicitly says it is not installed

Good find! However as per my above post - I've used it in the past but now couldn't find it.