Any way to share VM storage from FreeDOS as a VM on Proxmox with attachable something like virtual USB drive storage?
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FreeDOS VM shared storage
- Thread starter GoZippy
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Why do you think you can update the host BIOS from within a VM? If that were possible it would be the biggest security hole ever.
you are right - I was wondering if there was any way to get it to work but the abstraction layer is there for a reason lol.
You might be able to setup a FreeDOS on a bootable partition on each boot drive on each node, while also being able to run it as a VM with disk passthrough (but this is dangerous when FreeDOS accesses more than it's own partition). You can even do backups but not restores to the bootable partition.
Maybe you don't need the FreeDOS VM but instead use another VM or container that gets access to the FreeDOS partition on it and you can use that to put files on it. But you'll need to boot the host manually to run an update. But this can also be done by other automation tools that you run on the host with access to the FreeDOS partition.
Maybe you can find motherboards that are supported by Fwupd and run the firmware update from the Proxmox hosts?
EDIT: I'm just thinking out loud, and have no concrete experience with this. And the possible ideas get less and less related to Proxmox (and more generic automation).
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