give access to sata drive to my vm to clone from additionnal sata drive

[ultimed]

Hi all, It's my first post on this forum, so Hello Everyone! I which you a nice day/night

Sorry for my approximative English...

I'm actually testing proxmox to migrate a physical windows 2008 r2 to a vm.

I cloned the server after applying the mergeide.reg and copy image files to an sata hard drive (The drive contains the image files from cloning).

I installed proxmox on the server (without the clone sata hard drive connected)

I configure the vm and now Id'like to boot from my clonezilla cd (this part works ) and clone back to my guest drive from the image stored on the sata drive.

I assume it will be faster than through network.

So I'd like My guest could Access the sata drive to clone back.

Is it possible?

If yes how should I do?

Regards,

Mehdi Bhanji

 

[tom]

you cloned the windows with clonezilla, so you have now clonezilla image files on this drive. which filesystem is no it?

 

[ultimed]

Thanks for your answer.

It's on ntfs.

I can tranfer it on another drive with a different filesystem, but I'd like to use ntfs for further test...

 

[tom]

just attach it on the host and find the name of the device ('fdisk -l' will help). E.g. it could be /dev/sdb1

now add the following file to your new VM config file (nano /etc/qemu-server/VMID.conf).

ide3: /dev/sdb1

if you poweron your VM, booting from the clonezilla live cd, you should see the disk.

 

[ultimed]

Thanks for your answer, I'll try tonight and let you know.

 

[ultimed]

It works, many thanks.

Finallly, I clone again disk to disk, and add the following to vm.conf
ide3: /dev/sdb

cloning back to virtual is in progress, I find this is quite slow, is it normal?

Thanks again.

 

[tom]

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cloning back to virtual is in progress, I find this is quite slow, is it normal?

Thanks again.

what is "slow"? provide facts. I got around 1.5 gb/m by restoring clonezilla image files on a basic Proxmox VE server (SATA disks, hw raid)

 

[ultimed]

ok, it works now, about 2.5gb/min from sata to raid 10.

I was using amd64 version of clonezilla, It works fine with i686.

Thx!