From time to time, I have to boot into Windows Recovery inside a VM (kvm) and I have to provide some files to be available to that Windows Recovery system. For instance Windows Backup Restore. I would need to place those files on an USB or a network share. These are often really big files, many TB. USB is often not practical on a remote system and it takes time to access it. On a network without DHCP, it is a struggle to configure IP (as it is no user friendly way to configure it and typing through console with no/random support for non-english keyboard can be fun to try to map slashes and colons - and even passwords for the shares) - and often there is problems accessing the shares for reasons I don't know so I have to redo the struggle. Not like the console supports copy/paste either.
If the files on the remote nas was an ISO file (I have the server with the files connected as samba share), I could just mount it in Proxmox. So one option is to create the entire windows backup as an huge iso file and mount it as a 2nd drive to the vm. But is there a way to emulate a disk or remote share to the vm without having to go through the iso process?
If the files on the remote nas was an ISO file (I have the server with the files connected as samba share), I could just mount it in Proxmox. So one option is to create the entire windows backup as an huge iso file and mount it as a 2nd drive to the vm. But is there a way to emulate a disk or remote share to the vm without having to go through the iso process?
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